Past events
Monday Seminar: Labor Market Search with Imperfect Information and Learning
Presented by: Basit Zafar, Arizona State University
Venue: ISER large seminar room, 2N2 4.16
Introduction to Understanding Society using Stata
Presented by: Understanding Society team
Venue: University Of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
JESS Seminar: Housing Market and Parents’ School Choice Response to School Quality Information Shocks
Presented by: Using a well established disclosure regime, in a setting where there is some limited school choice, this paper investigates the impact of school quality information shocks on both house prices and school choice. Importantly, for the information treatment used in this study – inspection ratings – I establish that (i) students enrolled in a school experiencing an uprating make larger test score gains and (ii) these test score gains are especially large for disadvantaged students. I exploit exogenous temporal variation in the release of ratings to identify their impact along the full school quality distribution. I find robust evidence of the causal impact of changes in ratings on both house prices as well as families’ school choices. The hedonic impact is especially large for homes located near schools serving advantaged students. There is almost no impact for units located near disadvantaged schools; potential explanations include consumer credit constraints and excess capacity at such schools. However, these two explanations are ruled out by the school choice analysis: uprated schools serving disadvantaged students experiences no increase in demand from local families even when these schools are in their choice set.
Venue: 2N2.5B.24
Monday Afternoon Seminar: How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics? Evidence from two rich countries
Presented by: Professor Stephen Jenkins, LSE
Venue: 2N2.4.16
JESS seminar: Do Falsifiers leave traces? An attempt to identify interviewer falsifications by questionnaire-immanent indicators
Presented by: Sandra Walzenbach, Konstanz
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (Large Seminar Room)
Monday Afternoon Seminar: The Effect of Alcohol Taxes – Evidence from Scanner Data
Presented by: Markus Gehrsitz, University of Strathclyde
Venue: 2N2.4.16
Understanding Society – An introduction to genetics for social scientists
Venue: University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ
JESS Seminar: Participation in a mobile app survey to collect expenditure data as part of a large-scale probability household panel: response rates and response biases
Presented by: Annette Jäckle, ISER
Venue: 2N2.5B.24 - ISER Boardroom
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Academic undermatch among high-attaining disadvantaged students
Presented by: Stuart Campbell, UCL Institute of Education
Venue: 2N2.4.16
MiSoC workshop: What works in health messaging? New international research
Presented by: Professor Sonia Bhalotra, Professor Adeline Delavande, Dr Paul Fisher (all of the University of Essex) & Dr Jonathan James (University of Bath)
Venue: University of Bath in London, 83 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ES
Monday Afternoon Seminar: The Effect of Survey Sampling and Mode on Sample Accuracy, Retention and Response Quality
Presented by: Annelies Blom, University of Mannheim
Venue: 2N2.4.16
JESS Seminar: The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Presented by: Stefanie Schurer, University of Sydney
Venue: 2N2.5B.24 - ISER Boardroom
JESS Seminar: The Effects of Competition Outcomes on Health: Evidence from the Lifespans of U.S. Olympic Medalists
Presented by: Adriaan Kalwij, Utrecht (visiting Ricky Kanabar)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
CANCELLED: Monday Afternoon Seminar: Sociogenomics: Combining Socio-demographic and Genetic Predictors to Explain Fertility Behaviour
Presented by: Melinda Mills, University of Oxford
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
JESS Seminar: Is the health of English babies worse in recessions?
Presented by: Elisabetta De Cao, University of Oxford (MiSoC Visitor)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 ISER Large Seminar Room
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Online surveys are mixed-device surveys: issues in designing mobile-friendly surveys
Presented by: Vera Toepel, University of Utrecht
Venue: 2N2.4.16
JESS Seminar: Matthias Parey
Presented by: Matthias Parey, Department of Economics
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Stephen Stansfeld. ‘A lifecourse perspective on work and mental health’
Presented by: Stephen Stansfeld, Queen Mary University of London
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
JESS Seminar: Fertility, Female Labour Supply and Childcare Responses to Public Policies: A Simulation Analysis
Presented by: Panayiota Lyssiotou, University of Cyprus (EUROMOD visitor)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
JESS Seminar: Tom Crossley (Cancelled)
Presented by: Tom Crossley, Economics and ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room