Angus Holford introduces MiSoC’s workshop on the Economics of Higher Education 13-14 June with keynote speakers Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University) and Todd Stinebrickner (Western Ontario)
Blog
ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
The long-run effects of attending an elite school
Professor Emilia Del Bono writes about her work exploring the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income, and fertility.
Skilled migrants have higher earning potential in countries with more inequality
- Matthias Parey
In their blog for the LSE Business Review, MiSoC’s Matthias Parey, with colleagues Jens Ruhose (IZA), Fabian Waldinger (LSE) and Nicolai Netz (DZHW) investigate the migration patterns of high-skilled workers and find that they respond to economic incentives.
Early gender gaps among university graduates
- Matthias Parey
- Marco Francesconi
In a recent blog for the Centre for Economic Policy Research’s VoxEU, MiSoC’s Matthias Parey and MiSoC Research Associate Marco Francesconi investigate the gender pay gap by exploring the recent experience of university graduates in Germany soon after their graduation.
Ethnicity and Integration?
In an article for Discover Society, Alita Nandi responds to the government’s Integrated Communities Strategy Paper 2018
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
In a column for [Ideas for India](http://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/social-identity/religion-and-abortion-the-role-of-politician-identity.html), Professor Sonia Bhalotra and her colleagues Irma Clots-Figueras of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Lakshmi Iyer of the University of Notre Dame introduce their new research paper which examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected, conditional upon their party affiliation
How India’s bridal dowry tradition leads to missing women
In a new discussion paper for the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Professor Sonia Bhalotra and her colleagues Abhishek Chakravarty of the University of Manchester and Selim Gulesci of Bocconi University investigate how the financial burden of dowry expectation contributes to the sex ratio imbalance in India
Mental health risks to girls who spend more than an hour a day on social media
Dr Cara Booker’s blog piece for The Conversation examines the health risks to children and young teens of increasing amounts of time on social media
Collecting data with new technologies – valuable for research, or are we just collecting data for the sake of it?
In a blog for CLOSER, Annette Jäckle cautions that before we rush headlong into adopting new technologies to help with survey data collection we need to recognise and address the new challenges they bring with them
Do unpaid interns benefit from the experience? Or who is hurt the least?
Angus Holford describes new research on the pay back from working for nothing
Understanding Brexit
- Nicole Martin
Dr Nicole Martin describes research projects planned using unique new data on attitudes to the UK leaving the European Union
Impactful Social Science – How Social Science is helping to tackle global grand challenges
- Shamit Saggar
Shamit Saggar, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at ISER spoke at the ESRC’s launch of the Festival of Social Science at the Royal Society on 7 November. Hosted by Springer Nature partnered with the Economic and Social Research Council, Professor Saggar joined Laurie Taylor of Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Professor Felicity Callard, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.