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Academies’ impact on pupils: Looking beyond exams

Academies are independent state-funded schools that are managed outside of Local Authority control and enjoy greater autonomy. While most of the empirical literature on academies focuses on exam performance, this work examines the effect of academy attendance on decision-making skills, mental health, and social behaviour. Using the Millennium Cohort Study...

Presented by: Dr Nuno Braz - Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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How do economic shocks impact upon the mental health of retirees?

Economic crises are common, but their timing is uncertain. This paper examines whether the mental health and well-being effects of retirement change in the presence of major economic shocks. Using a range of causal empirical methodologies, with a particular focus on a fixed-effects instrumental variables approach, we analyse longitudinal data...

Presented by: Dr Mario Martinez-Jimenez - Imperial College London

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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Inequalities in exposures to unhealthy commodity marketing in the built environment

The production and marketing of unhealthy commodities have been described as “shaping and manufacturing epidemics”. Such unhealthy commodity marketing represents one facet of the commercial determinants of health (CDoH), broadly defined as the “strategies and approaches used by the private sector to promote products and choices that are detrimental to...

Presented by: Dr Tony Robertson - University of Stirling

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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More than just lunch: School-meal subsidies and language proficiency

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches. We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the whole universe of applications to the programme. Using a Regression Discontinuity...

Presented by: Samuel Franco Lado - Universtat de Girona

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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Mode of delivery of the first child and progression to a second birth in the Norwegian population

Even in high-income populations quite high proportions of first-time mothers experience complications in pregnancy or delivery which may influence decisions about future fertility. Using register data from the whole Norwegian population, we investigate whether birth experiences of first-time mothers of liveborn singleton babies in 2007-2017 were associated with progression to...

Presented by: Professor Emily Grundy - Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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Broadcasting Education at Scale: Long-Term Labor Market Impacts of Television-Based Schools

This paper examines the long-term impacts of using information and communication technologies to scale up last-mile educational services. We exploit geographic variation and cohort exposure from 1980 to 2000 to Mexico's TV-schools--lower secondary schools that substitute on-site specialized teachers with televised lectures, serving over 1.4 million children annually. Cohorts in...

Presented by: Laia Navarro-Sola - Stockholm University

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16