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S*x differences in excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal ecological analysis of 34 high-income countries
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.104072
Paper in eClinicalMedicine by former Non-Stipendiary Reasearch Fellow Katarzyna Doniec, Jonas Schöley, Mine Kühn and Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd

Contribution of lifestyle factors to s*x differences in educational inequalities in life expectancy in selected European countries
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2026.110165
Paper in Annals of Epidemiology by F***y Janssen, Nuffield College Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Alison Sizer, Nicolás Zengarini and Pekka Martikainen

See also this news story from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science: Lifestyle factors help explain why educational inequalities in life expectancy are larger among men
https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/lifestyle-factors-help-explain-why-educational-inequalities-life-expectancy-are-larger-among

Why housing markets fail and how to fix them
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/pulse/politics-business-economy/john-muellbauer
University of Oxford news story highlighting the research of Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow John Muellbauer

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby

The gendered intergenerational transmission of managerial status
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224261457151
Paper in American Sociological Review by Nuffield College alumnus (and former PPRF) Nicholas Martindale, Thomas Lyttelton and Lasse Folke Henriksen

The Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Managerial Status - Nicholas Martindale, Thomas Lyttelton, Lasse Folke Henriksen, 2026 Prior research on managerial attainment highlights inequalities based on gender and ethnicity, but the role of social origins has been neglected. Moreover, past...

Beyond the visible: Centering adolescent voices in conceptualising violence in conflict settings
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119606
Paper in Social Science & Medicine by Yvonne Agengo, Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Nontokozo Langwenya, Alexandra Blackwell, Gad Mwamba, Sabine Rakotomalala and Nuffield Fellow Lucie Cluver

Why is life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind? A cause-of-death decomposition approach
https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2026.2682462
Paper in Population Studies by Nuffield College Alumnus Antonino Polizzi, Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Andrea M. Tilstra, Luyin Zhang and Nuffield Senior Research Fellow Jennifer Beam Dowd

When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2532642123
Paper in PNAS by Associate Member Evelina T. Akimova, Agnes Fauske, Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Alexandra Havdahl, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Nuffield Fellow Melinda C. Mills and Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

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When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study | PNAS Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...

NATO’s Nuclear types: Vulnerability, defense investment, and alliance strategy preferences
https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.509
Paper in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies by Stephen Herzog, J. Luis Rodriguez and Nuffield College Fellow Lauren Sukin

NATO’s Nuclear Types: Vulnerability, Defense Investment, and Alliance Strategy Preferences | Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies Collection:The Nordics, NATO and the Third Nuclear AgeNATO’s Nuclear Types: Vulnerability, Defense Investment, and Alliance Strategy PreferencesResearch ArticlesAuthorsStephen HerzogJ. Luis RodriguezLauren SukinAbstractMembers of nuclear alliances face myriad and complex demands. They must ensure ...