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2025 European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association
Venue: NUI Galway, Ireland
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Arts and wellbeing
What is the relationship between the arts and our mental health? Are they good for our mental health, or are happier people more likely to engage in the arts? The guests for this episode are Hei Wan (Karen) Mak, a senior research fellow in epidemiology and statistics at UCL and Nicky Goulder, CEO of Create, which puts on creative workshops in schools, day centres, prisons, and hospitals.
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Roots of problem debt and policies to mitigate its consequences
How do individuals get into debt and subsequently manage their credit commitments, and how effective is debt advice?
Podcast
Gender, housework and childcare
Do education levels affect gender roles in UK households? Do men with degrees do more childcare and housework? With guests: Barbara Okun, Professor of Demography in the Sociology Department and Demography Division at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr Sara Reis, Deputy Director and Head of Research and Policy at feminist economics think tank the Women’s Budget Group.
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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