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Eliciting and Shaping Beliefs About Shared Parental Leave: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Despite the growing availability of paternity leave policies across the world, most fathers do not take any leave at all or only a small proportion of what they are eligible for. This could be driven by families only marginally valuing the time that fathers spend with their newborn children. Using...

Presented by: Laura Fumagalli (ISER)

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Genetics and occupational status: gene-environment interplay, intergenerational transmission, careers and health

Socioeconomic status (SES) impacts health and life course outcomes. This GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) on sociologically-informed occupational status measures (ISEI, SIOPS, and CAMSIS) using the UKBiobank (N=273,157) identified 106 independent SNPs of which 8 are novel to the study of SES. Genetic correlation analyses point to a common genetic factor...

Presented by: Professor Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Intercultural education to encounter cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms: analyzing the tension between policy and bottom-up implementation practices.

Along the years, cultural and linguistic diversity in schools has significantly increased, in all European countries. In light of that, the Council of Europe (2008) has started promoting ‘intercultural education’ as the main educational strategy to accommodate diversity and to promote interactions among pupils with different cultural/linguistic affiliations. In the...

Presented by: Irene Landini (University of Antwerp).

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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Cohabitation, childbirth and child human capital

The US and European countries have experienced dramatic changes in family formation in recent decades, with more parents in a partnership choosing to have a child without marrying first. As this fall out from marriage is predominantly a low socio-economic status phenomenon, it can lead to an exacerbation of inequalities...

Presented by: Gloria Moroni (University of Venice)

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)