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Gender bias in evaluating assistant professorship applicants? Evidence from harmonized survey experiments in Germany and Italy
Klarita Gërxhani, Nevena Kulic, Alessandra Rusconi and Heike Solga This study examines gender differences in evaluations of applicants for assistant professorships in Germany and Italy in light of the dominant narrative of women’s discrimination in academic hiring. This narrative assumes that female applicants receive lower ratings than men. However, following...
Presented by: Professor Klarita Gërxhani
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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Health Inequalities in Labour Market Outcomes. Do healthy labour markets lead to a healthy workforce?
The labour market is conceived as largely a marketplace for labour; where agents transact their labour in exchange of pay. However, this is a rather simplistic and narrow view. On closer examination we know that the labour market is comprised of people from a very diverse socio-demographic background with different...
Presented by: Dr Theocharis Kromydas
Venue: Online - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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Towering Intellects? Sizing up the Relationship Between Student Height and Academic Success
Stephanie Coffey and Amy Ellen Schwartz Do tall students do better in school? While a robust literature documents higher earnings among taller people, we know little about the potential academic origins of the height earnings gradient. In this paper, we use unique student-level longitudinal data from New York City (NYC) to...
Presented by: Professor Amy Ellen Schwartz
Venue: Online - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.
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The impact of COVID-19 on gender income inequality in Europe
Silvia Avram and Daria Popova This study provides the first comparative analysis of the gendered impacts of the pandemic and the associated policy responses on earnings and disposable incomes in the EU and the UK. The changes in the income distribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 were nowcasted...
Presented by: Dr Daria Popova
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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Future of Work – Workshop on Ongoing Changes in the Labour Market
Venue: Innovation Centre, University of Essex
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Linking survey and digital trace data
Presented by: Professor Tarek Al Baghal and Dr Paulo Serido
Venue: ONLINE
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Workshop on inequalities in teacher assessment, prediction and mismatch
Presented by: Hettie Burn
Venue: Church House, Westminster
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Statistics to Inform Radical Change
Presented by: Peter Lynn & Olena Kaminska
Venue: St Luke's Community Centre, London
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Beyond Test Scores: How Being the Top of Your Cohort Affects Educational Attainments and Social and Emotional Development
Making comparisons is one of the main ways through which we, as humans, perceive the world. In the context of education, bringing together children will inevitably lead them to compare themselves with each other. As academic performance is easily perceived, they will likely be able to rank themselves among their...
Presented by: Tommaso Sartori, ISER
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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New book: A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household
“a long overdue and important contribution to the literature…opening up the lid of the “black box” of household and family finances and taking a peek inside.’”
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We are hosting the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference 24-26 September 2024
The prestigious interdisciplinary conference will focus on inequalities across the life course and generations. Deadline for abstracts 29 February.
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Pregnancy as a period of change for household nutrition
Pregnancy is a time in which individuals change their health behaviours, bolstered by extensive public health guidance and growing evidence that a healthy prenatal environment fosters child development with lifelong benefits. We provide evidence on the dynamics of food purchases and nutritional quality during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth. Using...
Presented by: Professor Melanie Lührmann
Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)
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MiSoC policy fellowships bring government researchers in to work with our academic experts to investigate evidence gaps
Sharing MiSoC’s expertise in policy-relevant research and analysis of large data sets, with individual government researchers working in a similar area