Onto changes: Facing income gains from paid work or benefits, mothers who start off with higher incomes report more strained interactions. The opposite is true for those with lower incomes at the start.

Survey reports from fathers follow a similar pattern, especially after labour income losses 5/

Parents with different income levels report similar interactions with their children, more often ‘warm’ than ‘harsh’ or ‘permissive’. As eloquently argued by previous studies (doi.org/10.1177/0038...), blaming parents with lower incomes for ‘poor parenting’ has no support 4/

Importantly, parental reports in this study match well with youth reports: For example, when parents report more frequent ‘warm’ interactions, children report less quarrelling with their parents and that they more likely to talk to them about things that matter 3/

Findings for the UK are concerning, as Universal Credit associates with worse #health reports among youth also after the height of the pandemic (later wave of @usociety.bsky.social and COSMO study below), in line with findings from previous studies. 6/

Accounting for prior disparities in children's health, pandemic income support programs alleviated mental health struggles for some:

- Girls benefited most often than boys, particularly in Ireland;
- Some benefited in households targeted by #austerity in the decade prior; 4/

Combining survey data collected before, during and after the pandemic (@usociety.bsky.social, Growing Up in Ireland/Australia, COSMO study), I show that programs reached a wide pool of households, and disproportionately those in which children had relatively worse health before the pandemic. 3/

The UK, Ireland, and Australia expanded income support programs during the pandemic:

Australia's approach (the Coronavirus Supplement) was generous and comprehensive, Ireland's generous and targeted (with the Pandemic Unemployment Payment), and the UK's relatively meagre (via Universal Credit). 2/

Happy to share findings from new research out in Social Science & Medicine on #youth mental #health and #income support programs during the #pandemic:

TL;DR: Largest gains for children in Australia, mixed findings for Ireland and the UK. A thread 1/

#Sociology #EconSky

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

We point to #financial #pressure and some forms of
#deprivation rising, even among households with older children which *might* have more savings or face lower employment barriers than households with young children. Paper is open access @sfjournal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Here's an overview of all 🇬🇧 reforms we examined (period 2011-2013), with #housing #benefit, #taxcredit reform, #pip, the #Lone #Parent #Obligation and the #Benefitcap resulting in the largest (and most regressive) losses in the corresponding sources of #benefit #income

We point to #financial #pressure and some forms of #deprivation rising, even among households with older children which *might* have more savings or face lower employment barriers than households with young children. Paper is open access @sfjournal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Here's an overview of all 🇬🇧 reforms we examined (period 2011-2013), with #housing #benefit, #taxcredit reform, #pip, the #Lone #Parent #Obligation and the #Benefitcap resulting in the largest (and most regressive) losses in the corresponding sources of #benefit #income