Past events
JESS Seminar:Unemployment and Intimate-Partner Violence: A Gender-Identity Approach
Presented by: Ana Tur-Prats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (visiting Myra Mohnen)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Extra JESS seminar: Effects of Air Pollution on Health, Productivity, and Health Care Consumption
Presented by: Julia Riise, Bergen
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER large seminar room
Monday Seminar: Rob Alessie
Presented by: Rob Alessie, University of Gronigen
Venue: Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
JESS Seminar: Intergenerational mobility of status with multiple dimensions: effect on measurement error with an international comparison
Presented by: Michele Bavaro (MISOC visiting fellow)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Universities in the UK – who applies, who stays, who achieves – what makes a difference
Presented by: Professor Emilia Del Bono, Professor Adeline Delavande, Dr Angus Holford, Dr Laura Fumagalli
Venue: Council Chamber, Broadway House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NQ
JESS Seminar: Who are the undereducated? Investigating the interplay of social origin and non-educational productive capacities in Great Britain and Germany
Presented by: Jonas Wiedner, University of Cologne (MISOC visiting fellow)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health – new findings
Presented by: Professor Shamit Saggar, Professor Michaela Benzeval, Dr Alita Nandi, Dr Renee Luthra
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, Westminster, London
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Paolo Brunori
Presented by: Paolo Brunori, University of Florence & University of Bari
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
Extra JESS Seminar: How Do Gender Quotas Affect Hierarchical Relationships? Complementary Evidence from a Representative Survey and Labor Market Experiments
Presented by: Jo Vecci, Gothenburg
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER large seminar room
JESS Seminar: The Effect of Child Health on Maternal Labor Market Outcomes
Presented by: Bernhard Schmidpeter, ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16. Large Seminar Room
Extra JESS seminar: Labor Market Returns to College Major Specificity
Presented by: Margaret Leighton, University of St Andrews
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Making the UK a good place to work – and the launch of Understanding Society’s Insights 2017
Presented by: Event Chair: Vicky Pryce, economist, author and commentator Insights 2017: David Walker, Chair, Understanding Society Governing Board Headline findings on low pay and work theme: Professor Susan Harkness, Director, Understanding Society Policy Unit Is low pay a spring board to higher earnings? Conor D’Arcy, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Resolution Foundation How can we improve low pay and insecure work in the UK? Panel and delegate discussion: Jane Gratton, Head of Business Environment and Skills, British Chambers of Commerce Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Analysis and Social Policy, University of Bath Matthew Oakley, Social Metrics Commission and Director of WPI Economics Steve Turner, Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union
Venue: Church House Westminster Deans Yard London SW1P 3NZ
JESS Seminar: Public Child Care Expansion and Mother’s Labour Supply- Evidence from Norway
Presented by: Astrid Kunze, Norwegian School of Economics and IZA
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Modern motherhood – new evidence for better policies
Presented by: Professor Sonia Bhalotra, Professor Emilia Del Bono and Dr Birgitta Rabe
Venue: Council Chamber, Broadway House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NQ
What works for work incentives: moving off benefits
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, London
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Participation in passive mobile data collection
Presented by: Florian Keusch, University of Mannheim
Venue: 2N2.4.16
What makes children unhappy? New research findings
Presented by: Dr Gundi Knies, Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex Dr Gill Main, University of Leeds Larissa Pople, The Children’s Society
Venue: Westminster Suite, Broadway House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NQ
JESS Seminar: The Sooner the Better? Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden
Presented by: Therese Nilsson, Stockholm (visiting Sonia Bhalotra)
Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Monday Afternoon Seminar: Explaining international differences in interspousal health correlations
Presented by: James Banks, University of Manchester
Venue: 2N2.4.16
JESS Seminar: Subjective Expectations on Labour Market Outcomes and Human Capital Accumulation in the UK
Presented by: Joshua Fullard, ISER
Venue: 2N2.5B.24 - ISER Boardroom. Note change of venue!