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Different types of academies in England: the impact on students beyond exam performance
Converter academies enrol pupils with higher ability from advantaged background, sponsor-led academies skewed to low ability disadvantaged pupils
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Access to Justice: Legal Aid and service for immigrants in the family justice system
New insights into how the migration experience impacts access to resources during parental separation
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Betting shops, arcades and casinos have an impact on local crime rates
New study used data from the Office of National Statistics, the UK Census, the UK Police Street-level Crime Dataset, and the POI Ordnance Survey
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Handling Mode Effects in Analyses of Mixed-Mode Survey Data
Venue: Room 777, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL
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Learning control variables and instruments for causal analysis in observational data
This study introduces a data-driven, machine learning-based method to detect suitable control variables and instruments for assessing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome in observational data, if they exist. Our approach tests the joint existence of instruments, which are associated with the treatment but not directly with...
Presented by: Nicolas Apfel (University of Innsbruck)
Venue: Online
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Professor Peter Lynn gives expert view to BBC Radio 4 on the issues at the Office for National Statistics with the Labour Force Survey
Survey expert Professor Peter Lynn appeared on BBC Radio 4 programme The Briefing Room this week.
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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