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CeMPA research workshop
Hybrid: ISER Room 2N2.4.16, https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/93773689395 Program: 0930-1000: From Pandemic to Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Distributional Impact of UK Tax and Benefit Policies, 2019–2023 (Daria Popova) 1000-1030: Changes in the Take-Up of Means-tested Benefits in the UK since 2008 (Daria Popova) 1030-1100: Inequality in Essex (Rejoice Frimpong) 1100-1130: Coffee break 1130-1200: Marginal Personal...
Venue: Hybrid
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New project to investigate the impact of school policies of restorative justice in managing behaviour
Professor Emilia Del Bono leads a research team looking at whether the practice improves outcomes for pupils and teachers
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Global rise in ultra-processed foods poses major public health threat; call for worldwide policy reform
Tackling the harms from ultra-processed foods will require not just new product rules, but also stronger safeguards against corporate influence in science and health policy
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Social life during COVID-19 in the UK, France, Germany and Italy: evidence from longitudinal studies
Professor Alita Nandi co-edits new book exploring inequalities in how we experienced COVID-19, by gender, age, socio-economic status, and family roles
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Different types of academies in England: the impact on students beyond exam performance
Converter academies enrol pupils with higher ability from advantaged background, sponsor-led academies skewed to low ability disadvantaged pupils
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Access to Justice: Legal Aid and service for immigrants in the family justice system
New insights into how the migration experience impacts access to resources during parental separation
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Betting shops, arcades and casinos have an impact on local crime rates
New study used data from the Office of National Statistics, the UK Census, the UK Police Street-level Crime Dataset, and the POI Ordnance Survey
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MiSoC Workshop on Family and Education Economics
Presented by: Jonathan James, University of Bath Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, University of Bath Lingqing Jiang, University of Essex Zhen Zhu, University of Kent Silvia Avram, University of Essex Susan Harkness, University of Bristol Amber Howard, University of Bristol Angus Holford, University of Essex Birgitta Rabe, University of Essex
Venue: 2N2.4.16
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Handling Mode Effects in Analyses of Mixed-Mode Survey Data
Venue: Room 777, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL
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Learning control variables and instruments for causal analysis in observational data
This study introduces a data-driven, machine learning-based method to detect suitable control variables and instruments for assessing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome in observational data, if they exist. Our approach tests the joint existence of instruments, which are associated with the treatment but not directly with...
Presented by: Nicolas Apfel (University of Innsbruck)
Venue: Online