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From Parents’ Cradle to Children’s Career: Intergenerational Birth Order Effects
Although numerous studies investigate how childhood experiences shape adult success, there is limited understanding of their impact on future generations. We study the intergenerational consequences of birth order, an aspect of childhood that affects a large part of the population and can be identified with relatively mild assumptions. Using cousin...
Presented by: Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
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New research to look at how family living arrangements have changed recently and what this means for household finances
Study will bring new evidence for policies on supporting complex families and households through benefits
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Helping inform Government’s new breakfast schemes in schools
New study will examine how existing schemes improve health, behaviour, attendance and attainment
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Judging the Paper by Its Cover: Affiliation Bias in Conference Admissions
Connections predict career success across many occupations. In academia, conference participation is essential to build and maintain a professional network, thus contributing to academic success. In this paper, we experimentally test whether and how academic affiliation affects conference acceptance. We run a stratified matched pair field experiment leveraging the reviewing...
Presented by: Dr Luca Favero (ISER, University of Essex)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
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Our policy evidence in new House of Lords plan to fix obesity and diet-related disease
Our research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that free school meals reduce children’s obesity rates
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The green skills gap – recommendations for the future of hydropower sector in the UK
New report from our MiSoC Policy Fellow, working alongside academics to investigate the evidence of a skills gap in the hydropower sector