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Socialisation disrupted: the intergenerational transmission of political engagement in immigrant families

Using a longitudinal household survey in the UK, this paper combines self-reports of the political engagement of immigrant parents and their UK raised children to examine the political socialisation process in immigrant families. We find that international migration disrupts the transmission of political engagement in immigrant families: associations between voting,...

Presented by: Prof. Renee Luthra (internal seminar ISER), joint work with Magda Borkowska (ISER)

Venue: ISER Seminar Room

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The Economic Value of Childhood and Adolescent Socio-Emotional Skills

This research estimates models of the relationship between early skill measures and later outcomes. We use uniquely wide-ranging measures on child behaviours at ages 10 and 16, teen occupational interests, and later life outcomes, such as earnings, education, and occupational tasks. We use several waves from the British Cohort Study (BCS, 1970). Our factor...

Presented by: Paul Garcia Hinojosa

Venue: ISER Seminar Room