Gender, Health and Wellbeing

Mental health issues represent a considerable challenge for personal wellbeing, parenting and economic productivity.

Our research programme on gender, health and wellbeing covers two key areas:

A comprehensive analysis of the impacts of mental health treatment on human capital, economic productivity and intergenerational outcomes across countries.
The evolution of female careers with a focus on the role of workplace institutions and the interaction of careers with family responsibilities.

Project Contacts:

Sonia Bhalotra

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Natalia Zinovyeva

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Project News

Literary gender norms and household economics

Do the fields of economics and fiction overlap when analysing human behaviour? A new book demonstrates that the two areas have more in common than we might t...

Wednesday 15 Oct 2025

Why do boys and girls still choose different careers? New research points to childhood friendships

Despite decades of progress toward gender equality, boys and girls across the developed world continue to choose very different educational paths. Women rema...

Tuesday 5 Aug 2025

The hidden gender dynamics of parenthood

A new study finds a surprising disparity in the gender dynamics of parenthood, with British mothers facing a significantly larger earnings penalty when their...

Thursday 17 Jul 2025

Five ways to celebrate women in economics this International Women's Day

In the UK only 15% of economics professors are women. And compared to 1 in 6 boys, just 1 in 17 girls choose to study economics at A level.

Thursday 6 Mar 2025

Economics CAGE Research Centre

Gender, Health and Wellbeing