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Broadcasting Education at Scale: Long-Term Labor Market Impacts of Television-Based Schools

This paper examines the long-term impacts of using information and communication technologies to scale up last-mile educational services. We exploit geographic variation and cohort exposure from 1980 to 2000 to Mexico's TV-schools--lower secondary schools that substitute on-site specialized teachers with televised lectures, serving over 1.4 million children annually. Cohorts in...

Presented by: Laia Navarro-Sola - Stockholm University

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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New UKMOD tax-benefit microsimulation updates and models for 2025 policy system

With over 100 users across academia, government, the devolved assemblies, and the third sector, UKMOD is the pre-eminent tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK

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Understanding the links between intrahousehold dynamics and individual and household debt: New funded PhD opportunity

Includes a placement with the Money and Pensions Service to see how they use research evidence for policy making

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New research project investigates impact of menopause and access to HRT on women’s lives

New Nuffield Foundation project with UCL looks at menopause care and impact on women from different socioeconomic backgrounds

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Impact Assessment of Social Assistance for Education on Welfare Distribution: A Microsimulation Approach Using INDOMOD

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA1/25 - January 11, 2025 - download  

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Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities

Venue: The British Academy

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Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities

One-day conference at the British Academy in London on 26 February and launch of Insights 2025 Report on housing related research using Understanding Society

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The importance of host country human capital for the labour market integration of different migrant groups in Europe

ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-01 - January 7, 2025 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Area Effects
3. Geography
4. Migration
5. Human Capital

Publication

Biological age and predicting future health care utilisation

Journal Article - January 1, 2025

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Health
3. Biology
4. Genetics
5. Medicine

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Diverse early-life family trajectories and young children’s mental health in the UK

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Lone Parents
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Health
5. Family Formation And Dissolution
6. Well Being
7. Child Development
8. Sociology Of Households
9. Social Psychology
10. Sociology

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The wage impact of immigration into the UK after the Great Recession

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Economics
3. Demography
4. Area Effects
5. Wages And Earnings
6. Geography
7. Migration

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Does disability affect support for political parties?

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Psychology
3. Social Attitudes
4. Health
5. Well Being
6. Politics
7. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
8. Disability

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Eliciting public preferences across health and wellbeing dimensions: an equivalent income value set for SIPHER‐7

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Income Dynamics
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Economics
5. Demography
6. Well Being
7. Public Opinion

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Reproducing advantage. The glass floor of the salariat class(es?) revisited

Journal Article - December 10, 2024

1. Income Dynamics
2. Psychology
3. Education
4. Social Stratification
5. Higher Education
6. Social Mobility
7. Social Structure
8. Sociology

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Fees paid and living costs grant for next PhD intake: Apply by 22 Jan for ESRC studentship for October start

PhD programmes in Economics, Survey Methodology, Health Research or Applied Social and Economic Research available for full or part-time study

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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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Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 16: results from methodological experiments and new data

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2024-11 - November 30, 2024 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology

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Universal free school meals and children’s bodyweight. Impacts by age and duration of exposure

Journal Article - December 1, 2024

1. Health
2. Public Policy
3. Area Effects
4. Living Standards
5. Education
6. Geography
7. Child Development

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1st Survey Futures Early Career Researchers Conference

Venue: University of Essex

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Survey Practice Forum #4

Venue: The Royal Society of Edinburgh