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Broadcasting Education at Scale: Long-Term Labor Market Impacts of Television-Based Schools
This paper examines the long-term impacts of using information and communication technologies to scale up last-mile educational services. We exploit geographic variation and cohort exposure from 1980 to 2000 to Mexico's TV-schools--lower secondary schools that substitute on-site specialized teachers with televised lectures, serving over 1.4 million children annually. Cohorts in...
Presented by: Laia Navarro-Sola - Stockholm University
Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16
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New UKMOD tax-benefit microsimulation updates and models for 2025 policy system
With over 100 users across academia, government, the devolved assemblies, and the third sector, UKMOD is the pre-eminent tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK
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Understanding the links between intrahousehold dynamics and individual and household debt: New funded PhD opportunity
Includes a placement with the Money and Pensions Service to see how they use research evidence for policy making
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New research project investigates impact of menopause and access to HRT on women’s lives
New Nuffield Foundation project with UCL looks at menopause care and impact on women from different socioeconomic backgrounds
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Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities
Venue: The British Academy
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Policy event: Housing at the heart: creating healthy, equitable and sustainable communities
One-day conference at the British Academy in London on 26 February and launch of Insights 2025 Report on housing related research using Understanding Society
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Fees paid and living costs grant for next PhD intake: Apply by 22 Jan for ESRC studentship for October start
PhD programmes in Economics, Survey Methodology, Health Research or Applied Social and Economic Research available for full or part-time study
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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