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Workforce quality in early years interventions: Evidence from a large-scale home visiting programme

Targeted early years programmes can have significant benefits for children's development; however, there are many examples of early interventions that have failed to live up to their promise, particularly when delivered at scale. Understanding the inputs into a successful early years programme is therefore essential to reform existing interventions and...

Presented by: Christine Farquharson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Venue: In person - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.

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The Short- and Medium-Term Effects of Extended Play-Based Learning in Early Childhood

Governments around the world are investing heavily in early childhood development, however it is still not clear what skills early childhood development policies should target or how they are best implemented. In this paper I evaluate the effects of an extended play-based learning policy for early childhood in Wales -...

Presented by: Hettie Burn

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Gender bias in evaluating assistant professorship applicants?  Evidence from harmonized survey experiments in Germany and Italy

Klarita Gërxhani, Nevena Kulic, Alessandra Rusconi and Heike Solga This study examines gender differences in evaluations of applicants for assistant professorships in Germany and Italy in light of the dominant narrative of women’s discrimination in academic hiring. This narrative assumes that female applicants receive lower ratings than men. However, following...

Presented by: Professor Klarita Gërxhani

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Health Inequalities in Labour Market Outcomes. Do healthy labour markets lead to a healthy workforce?

The labour market is conceived as largely a marketplace for labour; where agents transact their labour in exchange of pay. However, this is a rather simplistic and narrow view. On closer examination we know that the labour market is comprised of people from a very diverse socio-demographic background with different...

Presented by: Dr Theocharis Kromydas

Venue: Online - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Towering Intellects? Sizing up the Relationship Between Student Height and Academic Success

Stephanie Coffey and Amy Ellen Schwartz Do tall students do better in school?  While a robust literature documents higher earnings among taller people, we know little about the potential academic origins of the height earnings gradient. In this paper, we use unique student-level longitudinal data from New York City (NYC) to...

Presented by: Professor Amy Ellen Schwartz

Venue: Online - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.

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The impact of COVID-19 on gender income inequality in Europe

Silvia Avram and Daria Popova This study provides the first comparative analysis of the gendered impacts of the pandemic and the associated policy responses on earnings and disposable incomes in the EU and the UK. The changes in the income distribution due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 were nowcasted...

Presented by: Dr Daria Popova

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)