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Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service

Selection biases can distort causal estimates and undermine policy evaluations, yet detecting and quantifying selection remains empirically challenging. This paper introduces a novel method for detecting and quantifying selective survival using genetic data. Specifically, Polygenic Indices (PGIs) are predetermined at birth and should be equally distributed between treatment and control...

Presented by: Dr Nicolau Joaquim Martin Bassols (University of Bologna)

Venue: 2N2.4.16

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Older people’s health and living situation

Championing the ONS Longitudinal Study, Professor Emily Grundy and Dr Emily Murray discuss the value of this data source for research into health and ageing.

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Housing policy

The housing crisis – a simple question of too much demand and not enough supply, or is there more to it? With Rory Coulter, Associate Professor in Human Geography at University College London, and Kevin Garvey, Head of Member Relations at the National Housing Federation.

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Arts and wellbeing

What is the relationship between the arts and our mental health? Are they good for our mental health, or are happier people more likely to engage in the arts? The guests for this episode are Hei Wan (Karen) Mak, a senior research fellow in epidemiology and statistics at UCL and Nicky Goulder, CEO of Create, which puts on creative workshops in schools, day centres, prisons, and hospitals.

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Gender, housework and childcare

Do education levels affect gender roles in UK households? Do men with degrees do more childcare and housework? With guests: Barbara Okun, Professor of Demography in the Sociology Department and Demography Division at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr Sara Reis, Deputy Director and Head of Research and Policy at feminist economics think tank the Women’s Budget Group.

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Job mobility and the gender pay gap

In this episode, we discuss the effects of parenthood on job mobility and what this means for the gender pay gap with ISER’s Dr Silvia Avram, Senior Research Fellow, and Alesha De Freitas, Head of Policy, Research and Advocacy (at time of recording) at the Fawcett Society.

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Being part of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study

In this episode, one of our participants, Neil, talks about what it’s been like to be part of Understanding Society right from the beginning. What does it mean for him, and what changes has he seen in life and society since joining ISER’s predecessor study, the British Household Panel Survey, in 1991?

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Survey response rates during the Covid pandemic

ISER’s Dr Pablo Cabrera Alvarez talks about survey response rates and what happened to Understanding Society during the Covid pandemic, when interviewers couldn’t get to see participants face to face.

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Housing and ageing

ISER Research Associate Dr Amy Clair discusses her epigenetic research into the impact of living in poor quality rented housing, with Professor Meena Kumari and Professor Emma Baker. They find that private renting can age you faster than being unemployed or smoking.