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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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Evidence for better policy making – minorities in educational settings
Venue: Broadway House, London
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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
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Football and Anti-migration Sentiment: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup
Natives are often misinformed about immigrants’ characteristics, underestimating the positive potential labor market impacts of their presence and overestimating the cultural differences between both. We investigate if the over-performance of high-migrant football national teams is able to affect migrant perception. Comparing respondents interviewed shortly before with others interviewed shortly after...
Presented by: Giuseppe Ippedico (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Online
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The Inequality Impact of Paid and Unpaid Care Penalties
The daily provision of care for those who need it requires a vast amount of human effort; in the United States, on an average day, 32 million individuals provide paid care and 93 million provide unpaid care. Studies find that both paid and unpaid caregiving carry economic penalties, but the...
Presented by: Pilar Gonalons-Pons (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Online
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Acculturation to Gender Norms: Return to Employment by Migrant Origin after the Transition to Parenthood in Finland
The transition to parenthood is an important life course event which is heavily influenced by social policies, institutions, social norms and gender role attitudes. Previous research has shown that there is a migrant-native employment gap that is particularly evident amongst mothers, pointing at the transition to parenthood as an important...
Presented by: Elina Kilpi-Jakonen (University of Turku)
Venue: Online
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Double Machine Learning for Static Panel Models with Instrumental variables: Method and Applications
Panel data applications often use instrumental variables (IV) to address endogeneity, but when instrument validity requires conditioning on high-dimensional covariates, flexible adjustment for confounding is essential and standard estimators like two-stage least squares (2SLS) break down. This paper proposes a novel Double Machine Learning (DML) estimator for static panel data...
Presented by: Annalivia Polselli
Venue: 2N2.4.16
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4th UKMOD Fest – online event, Monday 20 October 2025
A gathering of developers, users and friends of UKMOD, our free tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK and its constituent nations, to share experiences and ideas related to the model and its applications
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Are men’s preferences for couple equity misperceived? Evidence from six countries
Gender gaps in labor supply and household responsibilities persist. Using representative survey data from 24,000 respondents across six countries, this paper explores the actual and perceived preferences of men for couple equity. We document that in all six countries, the majority of men state they prefer an equitable division of...
Presented by: Teodora Boneva (University of Bonn)
Venue: Online: https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/96225051152
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Foodbank Use and Wellbeing: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey Data in the UK
Quantitative research on foodbanks is usually based on selected samples of the customers of a major foodbank chain. We make two contributions to the existing literature, using the three most recent consecutive cross-sections of the UK’s nationally representative Family Resources Survey. First, we model foodbank use as a function of...
Presented by: Tanisha Mittal (Lancaster University)
Venue: 2N2.4.16