News

Event

Early life exposure to measles and later-life outcomes: Evidence from the introduction of a vaccine

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

Event

Couples’ Education and Fertility across Europe: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges

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.

Event

Does more education lead to a society that is more tolerant of immigrants? Examining the nature of the relationship between educational attainment and attitudes towards immigrants across generations in Britain

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

Event

Think-Manager-Think-Male: the role of unconscious discrimination in the workplace

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.

Event

UKMOD training course

Presented by: Justin Van De Ven and Matteo Richiardi

Venue: abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, Edinburgh

Event

Joint Economics / ISER Seminar Series

Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent

Presented by: Fabian Waldinger

Venue: Economics Common Room 5B.307

Event

Anyone still offline? Digital inequality and offline population inclusion strategies for panel survey studies – Evidence from Germany.

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)