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Overview

Anthony Heath is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, and economics and econometrics. The bulk of their publications concentrate in sociology and political science, reflecting a wide engagement with these disciplines.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes studies published in reputable journals and venues. Key papers include:

  • Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK (2020), published in Sociology
  • Dimensions of Migrant Integration in Western Europe (2021), published in Frontiers in Sociology
  • Not just 'the left behind'? Exploring the effects of subjective social status on Brexit-related preferences (2020), published in Contemporary Social Science
  • London Calls? Discrimination of European Job Seekers in the Aftermath of the Brexit Referendum (2021), published in Frontiers in Sociology
  • The Evolution of Nostalgia in Britain 1979-2019 (2022), published in Sociological Forum

The scope of topics engaged by Anthony Heath includes migration, refugees, and integration; names, identity, and discrimination research; migration and labor dynamics; social policy and reform studies; labor market dynamics and wage inequality; racial and ethnic identity research; and employment and welfare studies.

Their frequent coauthors reflect a collaborative network within the social sciences community, including Lindsay Richards, Yaojun Li, Tom Clark, Valentina Di Stasio, and Julia Jungblut.

Publication venues where Anthony Heath's research frequently appears include Frontiers in Sociology, Sociology, Contemporary Social Science, Sociological Forum, and Political Studies. This diversity of outlets shows interdisciplinary engagement within the broader social sciences field.

In addition to journal articles, Anthony Heath has contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a book titled Hard Times, published by Yale University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Origins and destinations : family, class, and education in modern Britain

    A. H. Halsey;A. F. Heath;John Michael Ridge

  • The Second Generation in Western Europe: Education, Unemployment, and Occupational Attainment

    Anthony F. Heath;Catherine Rothon;Elina Kilpi

  • How Britain Votes

    A. F. Heath;Roger Jowell;John Curtice;Julia Field

  • Rational Choice and Social Exchange: A Critique of Exchange Theory

    Anthony Heath

  • Understanding Political Change: The British Voter 1964-1987

    Anthony Heath

  • Measuring left right and libertarian- authoritarian values in the British electorate

    Geoffrey Evans;Anthony Heath;Mansur Lalljee

  • Unequal chances: ethnic minorities in Western labour markets

    Anthony F. Heath;Sin Yi Cheung

  • Guest editorial: Explaining ethnic inequalities in educational attainment

    Anthony Heath;Yaël Brinbaum

  • The Measurement of Core Beliefs and Values: The Development of Balanced Socialist/Laissez Faire and Libertarian/Authoritarian Scales

    Anthony Heath;Geoffrey Evans;Jean Martin

  • The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

    Anthony F. Heath;Stephen D. Fisher;Gemma Rosenblatt;David Sanders

  • Chapter 11 – The Great Moving Right Show

    Anthony Heath;Roger Jowell;John Curtice;Geoff Evans

  • The rise of new labour : party policies and voter choices

    A. F. Heath;Roger Jowell;John Curtice

  • An investigation of the social identity model of collective action and the 'sedative' effect of intergroup contact among Black and White students in South Africa

    Huseyin Cakal;Miles Hewstone;Gerhard Schwär;Anthony Heath

  • An exploration of the value of the personal doctor-patient relationship in general practice.

    Karen E Kearley;George K Freeman;Anthony Heath

  • Women's Jobs do Make a Difference: A Reply to Goldthorpe

    Anthony Heath;Nicky Britten

  • Ethnic Penalties in the Labour Market: Employers and Discrimination

    Anthony Heath;Sin Yi Cheung

  • Between first and second order: a comparison of voting behaviour in european and local elections in britain

    Anthony Heath;Iain McLEAN;Bridget Taylor;John Curtice

  • Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and Contextual Effects.

    de Nan Dirk Graaf;Paul Nieuwbeerta;Anthony Heath

  • Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle

    Robert Andersen;James Tilley;Anthony F. Heath

  • THE GLOBALIZATION OF PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH

    Anthony Heath;Stephen Fisher;Shawna Smith

  • Do some countries discriminate more than others? Evidence from 97 field experiments of racial discrimination in hiring

    Lincoln Quillian;Anthony Heath;Devah Pager;Arnfinn H. Midtbøen

  • Official and Reported Turnout in the British General Election of 1987

    Kevin Swaddle;Anthony Heath

  • British National Identity and Attitudes towards Immigration

    Anthony F. Heath;James R. Tilley

  • Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns

    Raya Muttarak;Anthony Heath

  • Social mobility of ethnic minorities

    Anthony Heath;John Ridge

  • THE 1992 BRITISH ELECTION: THE FAILURE OF THE POLLS

    Roger Jowell;Barry Hedges;Peter Lynn;Graham Farrant

  • Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

    Stephen D. Fisher;Anthony F. Heath;David Sanders;Maria Sobolewska

  • Class Inequalities in Education in the Twentieth Century

    Anthony F. Heath;Peter Clifford

  • Class Matters: The Persisting Effects of Contextual Social Class on Individual Voting in Britain, 1964–97

    Robert Andersen;Anthony Heath

  • Has multiculturalism failed in Britain

    Anthony Heath;Neli Demireva

  • The decline of British national pride.

    James Tilley;Anthony Heath

  • Cross-national Comparability of Survey Attitude Measures

    Anthony Heath;Jean Martin;Thees Spreckelsen

  • Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain.@@@Origins and Destinations: Family, Class, and Education in Modern Britain.

    Paula England;John R. Goldthorpe;Catriona Llewellyn;Clive Payne

Frequent Co-Authors

John Curtice
John Curtice University of Strathclyde
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Christopher McCrudden
Christopher McCrudden Queen's University Belfast
Robert Ford
Robert Ford University of Manchester
Geoffrey M. Evans
Geoffrey M. Evans University of Newcastle Australia
James Tilley
James Tilley University of Oxford
Eva G. T. Green
Eva G. T. Green University of Lausanne
Eldad Davidov
Eldad Davidov University of Cologne
Paul Nieuwbeerta
Paul Nieuwbeerta Leiden University
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford

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