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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
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Ethnic minority and immigrant pupils in Secondary Schools: New and Future Research from the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, Westminster
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Field an experiment or suggest questionnaire content for the next wave of the Innovation Panel for Understanding Society
Competition gives researchers access to the rich household data in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, and the benefit of testing new ideas with the support of the Understanding Society team