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CentrePiece article
Healthy Minds: the positive impact of a new school curriculum

As the UK government prepares to make personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education compulsory, a recent trial shows how these subjects can be taught successfully. Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire evaluate the ...Read more...

Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire

1 July 2019

CEP discussion paper
Widening the high school curriculum to include soft skill training: impacts on health, behaviour, emotional wellbeing and occupational aspirations

From 2020 the health and relationships aspects of Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education will be compulsory in UK schools for adolescents. However less is known about how it can be taught in an effective manner....Read more...

Grace Lordan and Alistair McGuire

20 June 2019

CEP discussion paper
Does Rosie like riveting? Male and female occupational choices

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and ...Read more...

Grace Lordan and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

3 August 2016

CentrePiece article
In brief...Prejudice in a time of recession

Is there more racial prejudice when the economy is weak and does it result in greater racial discrimination in the workplace? In an exploration of UK social attitudes and labour market outcomes over the business cycle, D...Read more...

David W. Johnston and Grace Lordan

6 November 2015

CEP discussion paper
Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they ...Read more...

David W. Johnston, Grace Lordan, Michael A. Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

9 September 2014

CEP discussion paper
When Work Disappears: Racial Prejudice and Recession Labour Market Penalties

This paper assesses whether racial prejudice and labour market discrimination is counter-cyclical. This may occur if prejudice and discrimination are partly driven by competition over scarce resources, which intensifies ...Read more...

David W. Johnston and Grace Lordan

10 February 2014

CEP discussion paper
Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Many people remain in the same income group as their parents and this is a cause of much discussion and some concern. In this work, we examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using the B...Read more...

Paul Dolan and Grace Lordan

15 February 2013