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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
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Professor Peter Lynn gives expert view to BBC Radio 4 on the issues at the Office for National Statistics with the Labour Force Survey
Survey expert Professor Peter Lynn appeared on BBC Radio 4 programme The Briefing Room this week.
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Dr Silvia Avram joins Professor Kristian Gleditsch for Regius Lecture on demographic change
This year’s prestigious lecture brings together experts to examine the potential social, economic and political challenges arising from a future with lower fertility and ageing populations
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Professor Annette Jäckle on BBC Radio 4 More or Less on trusting headline statistics
Unpicking the flaws in the methods of recent survey quoted in the media, claiming 77 per cent of Gen-Z took their parents to job interviews