Past events
Workshop on Subjective Expectations and Probabilities in Economics
Presented by: Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Venue: CESifo Group Munich, Poschingerstrasse 5, 81679 Munich, Germany
JESS: Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? Evidence from eight European countries
Presented by: Daria Popova, ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (ISER Large Seminar Room)
MiSoC workshop on the economics of Higher Education
Presented by: Keynotes: Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), Todd Stinebrickner (Western University) Speakers from the universities of Zurich, Uppsala, Royal Holloway, Utah, Purdue, Essex & Oslo.
Venue: ISER, University of Essex
Royal Statistical Society workshop: Ethnic & Racial Harassment, Mental Health and Ethnic Concentration
Presented by: Alita Nandi (Essex Uni), Laia Becares (Manchester) & Gwilym Pryce (Sheffield)
Venue: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Monday Afternoon Seminar: George B. Ploubidis
Presented by: George B. Ploubidis, UCL Centre for Longutidinal Studies
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
JESS Seminar: Parental Love is Not Blind
Presented by: Nadia Campaniello, Economics (with Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll and Ignacio Monzon)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
JESS Seminar: Mechanisms of intergenerational inequality: evidence from PIAAC
Presented by: Franco Bonomi Bezzo, ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
JESS Seminar: Amanda Hughes
Presented by: Amanda Hughes, ISER
Venue: Large Seminar Room: 2N2.4.16
Can transactional data help to understand human behaviour?
Presented by: Dr Anya Skatova, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in Digital Innovation and Wellbeing, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Venue: 2N2.4.16
JESS Seminar: Knocking on parents’ door: Regulation and intergenerational mobility
Presented by: Enrico Rubolino, ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
JESS Seminar: The Effect on Human Capital Accumulation of Choosing Maths at Post-secondary School
Presented by: Greta Morando, ISER and IoE
Venue: 2N2.5B.24, ISER Boardroom
May 2018 EUROMOD Course
Presented by: EUROMOD team
Venue: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex
JESS Seminar: Endogenous Shocks in Social Networks: Exam Failures and Friends’ Future Performance
Presented by: Maria Marchenko, University of Vienna (MiSoC, visiting Angus and Emilia)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Understanding Society Masterclass: Integrating Genetics and the Social Science
Presented by: Professor Daniel Benjamin, Director of the Behavioural and Health Genomics Center, University of Southern California, and Co-Director of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium; Professor Michaela Benzeval, Director of Understanding Society, University of Essex; Professor Meena Kumari, Professor of Biomedical and Social Sciences,Understanding Society, University of Essex;
Venue: RIBA 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD
JESS Seminar: Can changing neighborhood affect mental health? Evidence from quasi-random allocation of applicants in the public social housing system
Presented by: Cecilie Dohlman Weatheral, Kraksfond University (visiting Tom Crossley)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Monday Afternoon Seminar: tbc
Presented by: Basit Zafar
Venue: 2N2.4.16
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