That global life expectancy has more than doubled within the previous two centuries is – by any objective standard – something miraculous to behold, and the academic literature across the fields of economics, demography, public health, and evolutionary biology have all contributed to our understanding of the mechanisms behind variations...
Presented by: Dr Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
What is the relationship between family wealth and recruitment to Britain’s most powerful and influential positions, and how has it changed over time? In this paper we address these questions by combining 120 years of data from the UK Who’s Who (a unique catalogue of the British elite) with 140...
Presented by: Professor Aaron Reeves (University of Oxford)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
Until the mid 1960s, the UK experienced regular measles epidemics, with the vast majority of children being infected in early childhood. The introduction of a measles vaccine substantially reduced its incidence. The first part of this paper examines the long-term human capital and health effects of this improvement in the...
Presented by: Professor Stephanie von Hinke (University of Bristol)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
Women tend to both commute shorter distances and earn lower wages. While this relationship is often assumed causal, empirical evidence on the mechanisms is lacking. Theory suggests mobile workers are likely to command higher wages, in part because they have access to more employers. We show how information on employment...
Presented by: Dr Silvia Avram
Venue: CTC.1.02
The link between education and fertility has been a long-standing research interest in family demography, since education is considered an important indirect determinant of fertility behaviour. Empirical evidence on the relationship between education and fertility, however, is mostly based on findings concerning women’s life course. This is a major drawback...
Presented by: Dr Alessandra Trimarchi
Venue: Zoom. Link available upon request. Email iserseminars@essex.ac.uk if you're interested in attending.
In the West highly educated people are consistently found to have more positive attitudes towards immigrants than the lower educated. The sharp education expansion that started in the 1980s has therefore inspired optimism in the academic and public policy community about expected aggregate increases in tolerance. Yet, the evidence on whether...
Presented by: Dr Victoria Donnaloja
Venue: 2N2.5b.24
Examining managers’ evaluation of resumes in a large publicly-listed Italian firm, we find that managers unintentionally discriminate against women and that exposing managers to their own bias closes the gender gap in resumes’ evaluation. We measure managers’ unconscious bias through the Gender-Career Implicit Association Test (IAT) and, akin to an...
Presented by: Professor Paola Profeta, Bocconi University
Venue: Online.
Dr Magda Borkowska co-authors study with colleagues at the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham and St Andrews looking at levels of political interest among a large survey of ethnic groups in the UK
Presented by: Justin Van De Ven and Matteo Richiardi
Venue: abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, Edinburgh
Research commissioned by the Race Disparity Unit as the first output from our MiSoC Policy Fellowship scheme, in partnership with HM Government’s Open Innovation Team
Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent
Presented by: Fabian Waldinger
Venue: Economics Common Room 5B.307
Like many countries across the world, Germany can increasingly be described as a digital society, in which people regularly use the internet in their everyday lives, for example for shopping, working, communicating, and entertainment. However, internet usage skills as well as the availability and quality of internet access are unequally...
Presented by: Dr Carina Cornesse, DIW Berlin
Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)
Presented by: Emily Grundy, Mike Murphy, Meena Kumari, Jiawei Wu, Wei Xun & Doug Wolf
Venue: Broadway House, London
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