Past events
Applied Development Economics Seminar: Layoffs, Benefits and Intimate Partner Violence
Presented by: Professor Sonia Bhalotra
Venue: Zoom
Does family policy protect children and their parents from food insecurity? An analysis of individual-level food insecurity across 142 countries, 2014-2017
Presented by: Dr. Rachel Loopstra (King's College London)
Venue: Join online meeting via Zoom: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/91568620059 Meeting ID: 915 6862 0059
How the covid-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
Presented by: Professor Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Online
Fiscal Redistribution and Social Welfare: Doing More or More to Do?
Presented by: Dr. David Coady (IMF)
Venue: Online
Introduction to Understanding Society
Venue: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ
Working with UKMOD – advanced uses (29 April 2020)
Venue: ONLINE
Introduction to UKMOD (27-28 April 2020)
Venue: ONLINE
Webinar: investigating spoken language in the UK – what data can I use?
Presented by: Dr Alita Nandi, ISER, University of Essex, Dr Oliver Duke-Williams and Dr Jemima Stockton, UCL
Venue: University of Essex
EUROMOD training course
Venue: University of Essex
MiSoC Workshop on Subjective Expectations
Presented by: Andrew Caplin (New York University) Charles Manski (Northwestern University).
Venue: Arizona State University
Using neighbourhood data in Understanding Society
Presented by: Dr Gundi Knies
Venue: University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ
Webinar: investigating religion in the UK – what data can I use?
Presented by: Dr Yassine Khoudja, Goethe University Frankfurt, Dr Aly Sizer, UCL, and Dr Tom Clemens, University of Edinburgh
Venue: University of Essex
Introduction to Understanding Society
Venue: University of Essex
Boys Don’t Cry (Or Do the Dishes): Family Size and the Housework Gender Gap
Presented by: Giorgia Menta, University of Luxembourg
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16
MiSoC Research Workshop
Presented by: Arrival 9:30-10:00 (refreshments) 10:00 – Welcome (Emilia Del Bono) 10:00 – 10:30 Birgitta Rabe (ISER, Essex): Going universal - The impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes 10:30 – 11:00 Susan Harkness (Social Policy, Bristol): Lone motherhood and the accumulation of economic disadvantage in the US and UK 11:00 – 11:30 Paul Clarke (ISER, Essex): Machine learning for MiSoC 11:30 – 12:00 Emilia Del Bono (ISER, Essex): Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skills measures 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 13:30 Sonia Bhalotra (Economics, Essex): A lens on gender differences in the economic gains flowing from early childhood health investments: Evidence from Sweden 13:30 – 14:00 Amy Clair (ISER, Essex): Housing and Child Well-being 14:00 – 14:30 Renee Luthra (Sociology, Essex): Are immigrants becoming more selected? 14:30 – 15:00 Emily Grundy (ISER, Essex): Pregnancy and parturition experience, maternal depression and subsequent fertility
Venue: ISER large seminar room
From Daughters to Mothers: Fertility, Schooling, and Upward Human Capital Spillovers
Presented by: Paulino Font Gilabert, ISER PhD, University of Essex
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16
Measuring economic insecurity: Why and How?
Presented by: Matteo Richiardi, Director of EUROMOD at ISER and Professor of Economics at the University of Essex; Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England; Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath; chaired by Brian Nolan, Professor of Social Policy at Oxford.
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD
Unresolved public policy challenges: Three evidence-based perspectives
Presented by: Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician, Guy Goodwin, Chief Executive, National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) & Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen), Raj Patel, Associate Director, Policy and Impact Fellow, Understanding Society, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex and Polly Mackenzie, Chief Executive, Demos
Venue: British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Partner relationship quality in the UK and abroad: unemployment causes and family consequences
Presented by: Niels Blom, University of Southampton
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16
Tax evasion, public goods and tax progressivity: Evidence from taxing the ghosts
Presented by: Enrico Rubolino, PhD(c) ISER, University of Essex
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16