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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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Weighting and population estimation using Understanding Society: some frequently asked questions

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2024-01 - January 23, 2024 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Demography

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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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Introduction to Impact Evaluation

Presented by: Emilia Del Bono & Angus Holford

Venue: ONLINE

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The kids are alright: adolescents and their fathers in the UK – a review of data in six UK longitudinal studies

Report, Contemporary Fathers in the UK - January 1, 2024

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology
4. Family Formation And Dissolution
5. Well Being
6. Education
7. Research
8. Young People
9. Child Development
10. Social Behaviour
11. Sociology Of Households
12. Caregiving
13. Social Psychology

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The kids are alright: adolescents and their fathers in the UK – research gaps and recommendations

Report, Contemporary Fathers in the UK - January 1, 2024

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology
4. Family Formation And Dissolution
5. Well Being
6. Education
7. Research
8. Young People
9. Child Development
10. Social Behaviour
11. Sociology Of Households
12. Caregiving
13. Social Psychology

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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

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European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) Conference 2024

Venue: Erasamus University, Rotterdam

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CALL FOR PAPERS – Society For Longitudinal And Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) – Inequalities across life courses and generations: Interdisiplinary perspectives

Venue: Institute for Social and Economic Research

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Research shows 2 million people in London and South East will be pushed into paying more tax

Analysis by the House of Commons Library using UKMOD finds that 1.1 million in London and South East will end up in the 40p rate of tax by 2027, and almost 1 million of the lowest paid moving into the 20p rate.

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CBE for Professor Michaela Benzeval in King’s New Years Honours List

Professor of Longitudinal Research at ISER and Director of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, receives ”much-deserved recognition” for her outstanding contribution to world-leading social science.

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Recruiting and retaining young people in longitudinal surveys: lessons from Understanding Society: UK Household Longitudinal Study

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2023-15 - December 21, 2023 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Psychology
4. Young People
5. Social Behaviour

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Trends in panel attrition in Understanding Society: waves 1 to 13

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2023-16 - December 21, 2023 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Demography
4. Migration
5. Ethnic Groups

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Impact of equity in social protection spending on income poverty and inequality

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA10/23 - December 17, 2023 - download  

1. Income Dynamics
2. Poverty
3. Welfare Benefits
4. Economics
5. Public Policy

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Children’s nutrition in the Cost of Living Crisis – new research evidence and policy discussion

Presented by: Dr Angus Holford and Professor Birgitta Rabe

Venue: Nuffield Foundation, 100 St John Street, London EC1M 4EH and online. Register for the link.

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Children’s nutrition and the Cost of Living Crisis: Policy discussion event presenting new research evidence

Event on 8 February presents our new evidence and discusses which policies best support improving children’s nutrition

Publication

Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps

Journal Article - December 1, 2023

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Information And Communication Technologies

Publication

Firm heterogeneity and the aggregate labour share

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA9/23 - December 13, 2023 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Economics
3. Wages And Earnings
4. Labour Economics
5. Organizations And Firms