This year’s prestigious lecture brings together experts to examine the potential social, economic and political challenges arising from a future with lower fertility and ageing populations
Unpicking the flaws in the methods of recent survey quoted in the media, claiming 77 per cent of Gen-Z took their parents to job interviews
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, Westminster
Competition gives researchers access to the rich household data in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, and the benefit of testing new ideas with the support of the Understanding Society team
Natives are often misinformed about immigrants’ characteristics, underestimating the positive potential labor market impacts of their presence and overestimating the cultural differences between both.We investigate whether nationally televised sports influence natives' perceptions of immigrants in European countries. Using a triple-difference strategy comparing over- versus under-performing teams, in countries with high...
Presented by: Giuseppe Ippedico (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Online
The daily provision of care for those who need it requires a vast amount of human effort; in the United States, on an average day, 32 million individuals provide paid care and 93 million provide unpaid care. Studies find that both paid and unpaid caregiving carry economic penalties, but the...
Presented by: Pilar Gonalons-Pons (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Online
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