2026 Heather Joshi: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	61	1377	1227	262	236	307	11618

Overview

Heather Joshi is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with 22 publications, and notable subfields including General Health Professions, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics addressed by Joshi include Retirement, Disability, and Employment; Employment and Welfare Studies; Early Childhood Education and Development; Work-Family Balance Challenges; Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; and Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Joshi cover a range of empirical and theoretical issues:

A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Ability-grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence: Results from a U.K. population-based sample, 2021, Child Development
The gender gap in wages over the life course: Evidence from a British cohort born in 1958, 2020, Gender Work and Organization
Does residential mobility affect child development at age five? A comparative study of children born in U.S. and U.K. cities, 2022, Developmental Psychology
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies, 2023, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Joshi include:

Alex Bryson
David Wilkinson
Bożena Wielgoszewska
Efstathios Papachristou
Eirini Flouri

Joshi's work is frequently published in venues such as Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, SSRN Electronic Journal, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Child Development, and Gender Work and Organization. The publication distribution shows a particular concentration in longitudinal and interdisciplinary studies addressing life course and gender dynamics.

Best Publications

Higher mortality in deprived areas: community or personal disadvantage?

Andrew Sloggett;Heather Joshi

511
Citations
The wages of motherhood: better or worse?

Heather Joshi;Pierella Paci;Jane Waldfogel

367
Citations
Investing in People.

Heather Joshi;Theodore W. Schultz

343
Citations
The role of urban neighbourhood green space in children's emotional and behavioural resilience

Eirini Flouri;Emily Midouhas;Heather Joshi

306
Citations
Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study.

Andrew McCulloch;Heather E Joshi

283
Citations
The Influence of Context, Timing, and Duration of Risk Experiences for the Passage from Childhood to Midadulthood

Ingrid Schoon;John Bynner;Heather Joshi;Samantha Parsons

280
Citations
How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.

Lucy J Griffiths;Mario Cortina-Borja;Francesco Sera;Theodora Pouliou

274
Citations
Households, Employment and Gender: A Social, Economic and Demographic View

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274
Citations
The opportunity costs of childbearing: more than mothers business.

Heather Joshi

229
Citations
Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi;Susan Macran;Andrew McCulloch

226
Citations
Women's health: dimensions and differentials.

Susan Macran;Lynda Clarke;Heather Joshi

217
Citations
Postponement and childlessness: Evidence from two British cohorts

Dylan Kneale;Heather Joshi

212
Citations
The relationship between childbearing and transitions from marriage and cohabitation in Britain

Fiona Steele;Constantinos Kallis;Harvey Goldstein;Heather Joshi

205
Citations
The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

Heather Joshi;Emla Fitzsimons

199
Citations
Deprivation indicators as predictors of life events 1981-1992 based on the UK ONS Longitudinal Study.

Andrew Sloggett;Heather Joshi

198
Citations
The Cash Opportunity Costs of Childbearing: An Approach To Estimation Using British Data

Heather Joshi

197
Citations
Production, Reproduction, and Education: Women, Children, and Work in a British Perspective

Heather Joshi

186
Citations
Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months

Shirley Dex;Heather Joshi

186
Citations
Employment after Childbearing: A Survival Analysis:

Susan Macran;Heather Joshi;Shirley Dex

185
Citations
Single-sex Schooling and Academic Attainment at School and through the Lifecourse

Alice Sullivan;Heather Joshi;Diana Leonard

159
Citations
Millennium Cohort Study Third Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings

Kirstine Hansen;Heather Joshi

153
Citations
The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies

Heather Joshi

108
Citations
Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment

Heather Joshi;Catherine Hakim

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shirley Dex University College London

Eirini Flouri University College London

John Bynner University College London

Ingrid Schoon University College London

Harvey Goldstein University of Bristol

Mel Bartley University College London

Jane Waldfogel Columbia University

Jonathan Bradshaw University of York

Kathy Sylva University of Oxford

Susan A. Jebb University of Oxford

External Links

Wikipedia of Heather Joshi Personal website of Heather Joshi Google Scholar page

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