Kate Holvey
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Why married mothers end up doing more housework when they start out-earning their husbands
Here Joanna Syrda explores how the division of domestic labour is affected when a couple has children, finding that parenthood has a ‘traditionalising effect’. This was first published in The Conversation. The idea of a male “breadwinner” in married heterosexual...
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Migrants’ mental health can depend on the way they spend money
Here Haiming Hang explores whether economic migrants are happier in their destination country than they were at home, finding that this largely depends on how they spend their money. This was originally published on The Conversation. Every year hundreds of millions of...
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How the tobacco industry is undermining taxation strategies designed to improve public health
One of the most effective ways of cutting smoking rates is to increase tax on tobacco, discouraging people from buying with higher prices. However, the tobacco industry is known to use a series of tactics to undermine these taxation policies...
