In Episode 12 of Linking our Lives we're in conversation with Dr Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique who, together with colleages at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has used the ONS-LS to investigate how individuals and their partners in England and Wales have responded to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s.

• Household responses to trade shocks is an IFS Working Paper by Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Peter Levell and Matthias Parey

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In Episode 11 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Richard Patterson, from the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Richard has been using the ONS LS to investigate the impacts of funding to support cycling in urban areas and specifically to see whether there are any differences in those impacts.

Further information

• Equity impacts of cycling investment in England: A natural experimental study using longitudinally linked individual-level Census data is research by Richard Patterson, David Ogilvie, Anthony Laverty and Jenna Panter and is published in SSM Population Health

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In Episode 10 of Linking our Lives, we're joined by Dr Orian Brook, Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. Orian has been using the ONS Longitudinal Study to help investigate whether Britain’s cultural and creative industries are as open to all as some say or whether they remain dominated by the privileged few.

Further information

• Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s is open access research by Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published in the British Sociological Association Journal
• Culture is bad for you, Inequality in the cultural and creative industries is a book by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien and Mark Taylor and is published by Manchester University Press and the audio book is is on Spotify

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