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Couples with young children are as likely to stay together if the mother is the main breadwinner rather than the father, new research shows. 

A paper published in the journal Sociology today says the relationships of parents are in some cases more stable if the mother earns more than the father.  

Dr Shireen Kanji, of the University of Leicester School of Management, and Dr Pia Schober, of the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, examined survey data on 3,944 British couples as their first child aged from eight months to seven years.  

Los Angeles, CA. SAGE Publishing, a leading independent academic publisher of journals, books, and digital media, today announces that it has led an investment round for a minority stake in Publons with additional participation by existing investors. Known for its mission to use peer review to speed up science, Publons will remain completely independent and publisher-neutral following this investment, allowing for continued participation from other parties.

London, UK. As the number of working families who live in poverty continues to rise in the UK, a new ‘On the front line’ article, published by SAGE Publishing in the journal Work, employment and Society, reveals the severe challenges that low pay, limited working hours and constrained employment opportunities bring.

SAGE Publishing has been making waves in the world of big data and social research. From releasing a new research methods video product, to publishing a whitepaper exploring trends in big data research, to sponsoring DataKindUK’s DataDive, it’s been a busy few months. Find out more about what we have been up to in our latest Big Data and Social Research newsletter.

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This month's Big Data Newsletter shares the news that SAGE Campus has started a blog. One of its first posts, and a highlight for this month's round-up, is a conversation with Dr.

In the fifth edition of our monthly big data and social research newsletter, we explore the SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture that was delivered by Beth Simone Noveck, director of The Governance Lab at NYU and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, in November. We also highlight a recent LSE Impact blog post written by our very own Katie Metzler, Head of Methods Innovation, about the big data skills gap in the social sciences.   

In the latest edition of the Big Data and Social Research Newsletter, we highlight the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis 2017, sponsored by SAGE Publishing, which has several courses of interest to social scientists working with big data. We also share news of MethodSpace’s new Big Data Hub, a community space dedicated to the discussion and advancement of big data analysis. Find out more in the latest edition.  

In this month’s Big Data Newsletter, SAGE is offering readers a free course from SAGE Campus: Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientists. This short course explores how large-scale datasets and computational methods are changing social research, providing users with answers to frequently asked big data questions.

You can also catch up on our latest data science webinars! If you missed out on the Python and R webinars, you can watch the recordings for free here:

Los Angeles, CA - US adults and adolescents are now significantly more accepting of mothers who work fulltime, but a growing minority from younger generations believe that wives should mind the household and husbands should make decisions for the family, according to new research out today in the Psychology of Women Quarterly (a SAGE journal).

This month SAGE Publishing took to the stage as part of the ESRC’S Festival of Social Science, looking at the impact of big data on social research. You can watch a full video of the panel debate in our latest Big Data and Social Research newsletter below.

Already planning your activities for 2017? Well look now further- we have also done a quick roundup of some of next year’s computational social science summer schools and workshops, find out more in the latest edition.