Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/54820-alex-bryson
Economics
39%
Public Health
17%
Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment
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Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Not Flourishing
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Focusing on the 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study we find not flourishing is highest among women and the young. We emphasise the importance of accounting for survey mode when examining wellbeing and illbeing. www.nber.org/papers/w3432... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Labour market tightness and union activity
Join this event to hear Patrick Nuess explore the effect of changes in aggregate labour market tightness on union membership, union elections, and strikes.
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Patrick Neuss will be presenting at our QSS-CLS seminar on 22 October @sriucl.bsky.social Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Life satisfaction in Western Europe and the gradual vanishing of the U-shape in age - Academia.edu
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Labour market prospects are key to understanding the North-South divide in young Europeans' life satisfaction. Find out more here: www.academia.edu/2997-9196/2/... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 12
www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp
Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi and UTokyo) and I provide the first evidence on trade union effects on firm-level wages and productivity for developing countries using World Bank Enterprise Data. Download our new discussion paper here: www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Common/publi... @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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The middle-age misery "hump" has disappeared worldwide – why?
Research from @alexbryson.bsky.social with Dartmouth and @theifs.bsky.social suggests that increasing mental health challenges for young people are shifting the curve.
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Research from @alexbryson.bsky.social with Dartmouth and @theifs.bsky.social suggests that increasing mental health challenges for young people are shifting the curve.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/aug/...
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Patrick Nüß
@patricknuess.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Thanks a lot for hosting @alexbryson.bsky.social!
Really looking forward to the exchange and to seeing some of my coauthors in person again. 😄
If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺
Really looking forward to the exchange and to seeing some of my coauthors in person again. 😄
If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Job search under changing labour taxes
Workers’ job mobility decisions are related to firms’ wage policies but also depend on tax schedules. Using Norwegian population-wide administrative l…
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Higher wages reduce job separation rates but the effect weakens when taxes rise implying higher taxes reduce job search activity. Download our new paper free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Reposted by Tim Morris
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 2
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Want a job in quantitative social science? We have two permanent lectureships in our Social Research Institute. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research
The rapid rise in despair before the age of 45, and especially before the mid-20s, has fundamentally changed the lifecycle profile of despair.
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The rise in despair among the young means poor mental health is monotonously declining in age. This is the case in the USA, the UK and many countries around the world. Find out
More here: theconversation.com/lifetime-tre... @sriucl.bsky.social
More here: theconversation.com/lifetime-tre... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 27
The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age
Across many studies subjective well-being has followed a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being has followed a mirror-imaged hump-shape. Using...
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The decline in mental health of the young in the last decade or so requires attention from governments around the world. Find out more here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Q&A with Francesca Arduini
Francesca has just completed her Economics PhD. She tells us about her work on game theory and her future work joining the University of Oxford as an Economics Fellow.
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Congratulations to Francesca Arduini for completing her economics PhD at @ucl.ac.uk. Lorraine Dearden and I had a great time supervising her. Find out more about her PhD and her new job at Somerville College here www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/people/m... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 20
The consequences of abuse, neglect and cyber-bullying on the wellbeing of the young
We map changes in the mental health of young people in the United States. Then we run multivariate analyses to capture the independent correlation between young people’s mental health and difficulties...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been rising for the young in the USA and are strongly and significantly associated with poor mental health in adulthood. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 19
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Marginal decisions on employment retention can substantially impact racial earnings gaps. Find out more here: www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 19
Using genetic data to address economic and social issues with birth cohort data
Join this one-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic and social issues with birth cohort data.
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Working on the use of genetic data in social sciences with birth cohort data? Then submit a paper to our workshop here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... @sriucl.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 14
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The wellbeing of the young has been declining in many Latin American countries, across surveys, and using various measures of wellbeing and mental health. Check out our #OpenAccess paper out today: link.springer.com/content/pdf/... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @undp.org
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Tim Morris
@timtmorris.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Microsoft Forms
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Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues.
We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort
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We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort
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Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Today is International Youth Day. So it's an important moment to think about rising despair among the young in the United States. Check out the latest evidence here: www.nber.org/papers/w34071 @sriucl.bsky.social @nber.org