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
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
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
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
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
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
Presented by: Professor Peter Lynn
Venue: online
Presented by: Dr Silvia Avram, Dr Miranda Simon and Professor John Bartle join Regius Professor of Politics, Professor Kristian Gleditsch
Venue: Lakeside Theatre, Wivenhoe Park, University of Essex
Chronic pain sufferers who have lower levels of the stress hormone tend to recover their mental health better than those with higher levels