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The Legacy of Longevity: Persistent inequalities in UK life expectancy 1500-2022
Presented by: Charles Rahal, University of Oxford
Venue: ISER Seminar Room
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DI targeting and behavioural responses to benefit generosity: evidence from administrative records on CVD shocks
Presented by: Francesca Zantomio, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Venue: ISER Seminar Room
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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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Call for papers: MiSoC Workshop on Subjective Expectations
We invite scholars to submit their manuscripts to the Subjective Expectations Workshop to be held at Bocconi University.
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7th Workshop on Subjective Expectations
Presented by: Adeline Delavande, Charles F. Manski & Mirko Wiederholt
Venue: Bocconi University, Italy
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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
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Understanding the long-term impact of debt advice
Our evaluation of the Government’s pilot study finds a large scale survey would be feasible, important and timely
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Living in a cold home increases the risk of severe mental health problems
New study using Understanding Society data highlights serious health implications of fuel poverty
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Pandemic school closures as bad as divorce for effect on mothers’ mental health
New study uses Understanding Society data to unpick what happened to families during the lockdown that closed Britain’s schools
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Even after the U turn – a highly regressive mini-budget
The richest gain 100 times more than the poorest, new analysis from our Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
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Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more
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
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Good Childhood Report uses Understanding Society data
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