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Parental Separation during Childhood and Its Impact on Intergenerational Co-residence, Geographic Proximity, and Nature of Communication between Aging Parents and Adult Children: Evidence from a novel dataset on caregiving.

Due to increasing divorce rates, a substantial portion of middle-aged adults experienced parental separation during childhood or adolescence. Parental separation tends to weaken relationships and reduce contact between children and their non-resident parents. Subsequently, these disruptions may affect the contact and support adult children provide to their older parents. Using...

Presented by: Kate H. Choi (Western University)

Venue: Online

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Socio-emotional characteristics in early childhood and offending behaviour in adolescence

This paper examines the relationship between early childhood developmental difficulties and adolescent offending using linked administrative data from the Department for Education and the Ministry of Justice. I follow three cohorts of children assessed at age five and observe criminal outcomes between ages 11 and 17. Factor analysis of Early...

Presented by: Paul Garcia (ISER, University of Essex)

Venue: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Seminar Room

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Socio-Economic Outcomes of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Residential Mobility from Early Life into Adulthood

This presentation is divided into two parts. I first outline the rationale for adopting longitudinal and life course approaches to the study of spatial mobility, and briefly illustrate how these perspectives are implemented in the ERC LIFELONGMOVE project. I then present work-in-progress from an empirical study that examines how residential contexts and...

Presented by: Sergi Vidal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Venue: Online

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Minority Political Representation and Immigrant Integration

This paper investigates the impact of minority representation in English local councils on immigrants' naturalization rates between 2002 and 2020. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare wards where minority candidates narrowly won or lost to majority candidates. Our findings indicate that the election of a minority councillor significantly increases...

Presented by: Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (University of Exeter)

Venue: Online