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ESRC announce £100 million investment in ISER’s UK Household Longitudinal Study, Understanding Society
“Understanding how the UK lives and changes over time is key to ensuring services like healthcare, transport and education best serve the public and that hardworking taxpayers’ money is spent wisely.’ Science Minister George Freeman
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Policy discussion event on housing and health – new research to inform better policy making
Join Danny Dorling and other experts to discuss our latest research showing the biological impact of poor housing on health
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Double Machine Learning for Panel Data
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are powerful data-driven tools for approximating high-dimensional or non-linear nuisance functions and, among other things, handling sparsity. In this paper, we bring the power of ML algorithms (i.e., Lasso, classification and regression trees, and random forests) into statistical methods to estimate the impact of policy interventions...
Presented by: Dr Annalivia Polselli (University of Essex)
Venue: The seminar will be held in person at 2N2.4.16 and online. Please contact the seminar organisers for the zoom call details at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.
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Housing and Health: New Research to Inform Better Policy Making
Presented by: Amy Clair & Faye Sanders
Venue: Broadway House, London
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Renting rather than owning a private sector home linked to faster ‘biological ageing’
Impact of renting vs outright ownership double that of being out of work vs employment
Effects reversible, emphasising role of housing policy in health improvement
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Identification of Politically Motivated Survey Falsification in Online Surveys
The internet has become a key arena of political debate, and fake news, bots, fabricated and manipulated content come with this trend. Initial evidence suggests that also online surveys are subject to politically motivated falsification. This research project focuses on identifying politically motivated survey falsification in existing online surveys and experimental settings. While...
Presented by: Zaza Zindel
Venue: Hybrid
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Job loss is linked to increased risk of miscarriage and stillbirth
New MiSoC research found a doubling in the chances of a pregnancy miscarrying or resulting in a stillbirth following a job loss
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9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association
Venue: University of Vienna
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Child & Adolescent Data in Understanding Society: An Overview
Presented by: Dr Cara Booker and Dr Edith Aguirre
Venue: Online
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Wealthier children in UK experienced steepest fall in mental health during pandemic
Findings contradict predictions that disadvantaged children would be hardest hit – child mental health may have become more equal but worsened overall, say researchers
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Professor Meena Kumari appointed new ISER Director
Professor Kumari is a world-renowned epidemiologist, working at the intersection of social science and biological science
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Data for Action–the future of Public Health: Anna Crispe, Suffolk C Council
Presented by: Anna Crisp
Venue: Hybrid: Silberrad Centre and Zoom
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Data for Action: The future of public health
Anna Crispe from Suffolk County Council discusses health policy in the first of our seminar series in partnership with the Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing