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Socio-Economic Outcomes of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Residential Mobility from Early Life into Adulthood

This presentation is divided into two parts. I first outline the rationale for adopting longitudinal and life course approaches to the study of spatial mobility, and briefly illustrate how these perspectives are implemented in the ERC LIFELONGMOVE project. I then present work-in-progress from an empirical study that examines how residential contexts and...

Presented by: Sergi Vidal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Venue: Online

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Minority Political Representation and Immigrant Integration

This paper investigates the impact of minority representation in English local councils on immigrants' naturalization rates between 2002 and 2020. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare wards where minority candidates narrowly won or lost to majority candidates. Our findings indicate that the election of a minority councillor significantly increases...

Presented by: Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (University of Exeter)

Venue: Online

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CeMPA research workshop

Hybrid: ISER Room 2N2.4.16, https://essex-university.zoom.us/j/93773689395 Program: 0930-1000: From Pandemic to Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Distributional Impact of UK Tax and Benefit Policies, 2019–2023 (Daria Popova) 1000-1030: Changes in the Take-Up of Means-tested Benefits in the UK since 2008 (Daria Popova) 1030-1100: Inequality in Essex (Rejoice Frimpong) 1100-1130: Coffee break 1130-1200: Marginal Personal...

Venue: Hybrid