The present body of scholarship suggests that Black Americans seek mental health services
at much lower rates than their White American counterparts. The explanations for these …

This article presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new measure of economic
insecurity. The ESI assesses the individual‐level occurrence of substantial year‐to‐year …

This paper estimates the impact of economic insecurity on the mental health of Australian
adults. Taking microdata from the 2001–2011 HILDA panel survey, we develop a …

BACKGROUND The vast majority of demographic studies have approached and
operationalised the notion of economic uncertainty using snapshot indicators. Hence, the …

This research challenges the entrenched belief that financial vulnerability affects only low-
income consumers. Instead, most consumers across the socioeconomic spectrum …

This article combines two apparently distinct strands of contemporary research on fertility:
the literature on economic uncertainty and fertility; and the literature on subjective well-being …

Economic insecurity is an emerging topic that is increasingly relevant to the labour markets
of developed economies. This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey to …

Economic (in) security is attracting a growing interest in the social policy debate. However,
there is a lack of consensus about how to measure it. In this paper we review the existing …

We aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female
participation rates and lowest‐low fertility levels in I taly. Starting from the assumption that …

Economic security can be considered as an economic aspect of the life of an individual or
household that provides the opportunity to achieve financial stability and improve living …