Study by Dr Cara Booker with Professsor Heejung Chung from the University of Kent uses pre-pandemic data from Understanding Society to look at the impact of flexible working on families
Children’s happiness scores for life as a whole, friends, appearance, and school were significantly lower in 2019-20 than when the survey began in 2009-10
Presented by: Dr Silvia Avram
Venue: ONLINE
Presented by: Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)
Venue: University of Essex
Parental investments in children can take one of three broad forms: (1) Time investments during childhood that affect child ability (2) Educational investments (3) Cash transfers in the form of inter vivos gifts and bequests. Using panel data that covers a cohort of individuals from birth to retirement, we estimate...
Presented by: Prof. Eric French (University of Cambridge)
Venue: room NTC.1.04
We examine how parents choose schools using data from an urban school district in the Western United States. This district operates a public school choice system with a centralized school assignment process. Parents rank the schools in the district and an algorithm assigns students to schools based on these rankings,...
Presented by: Prof. Damon Clark (University of California, Irvine)
Venue: room NTC.1.04
Presented by: Prof. Matteo Richiardi
Venue: ISER Seminar Room
Professor Birgitta Rabe presents our Nuffield Foundation-funded research, alongside a discussion on other recent research and subsequent policy implications
Prestigious honour for our Professor of Longitudinal Research and the Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study
More users, more data, more research – the latest report on our ESRC-funded UK Household Longitudinal Study
Vasileios Antonopoulos, an Economic Advisor in the Race Disparity Unit will work alongside our research experts on a number of action points detailed in Inclusive Britain, the government’s response to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
New book from Professor Peter Lynn and Dr Lars Lyberg suggests improvements to documentation of procedures, guidance on survey procedures and capacity building in methods for dealing with error sources
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