Smartphones have become versatile tools for data collection in the social and behavioural sciences. Yet the recruitment of study participants who are willing to install a research app on their smartphone and participate in high-frequency data collection remains a challenge. This talk presents the results from a recent experiment on...
Presented by: Alexander Wenz (University of Mannheim)
Venue: Online
Understanding how treatment effects vary across groups is central to policy evaluation. In Difference-in-Differences designs, heterogeneity is often studied using subgroup or triple-difference analyses, which can suffer from conservative inference, reliance on parametric interaction structures, and sensitivity to differences in covariate distributions across groups. We propose the Balanced Group Average Treatment...
Presented by: Nadja van 't Hoff (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: Online
We examine wage returns to geographic mobility in Spain, a country that traditionally experienced limited mobility despite substantial regional variation on unemployment and wages. We find that wage returns are modest on average -around 2% -however, there is substantial heterogeneity with some groups experiencing losses. Wage gains associated with return...
Presented by: Silvia Avram (University of Essex)
Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)
We examine the long-term effects of early childcare using administrative data from Barcelona. In oversubscribed public childcare centers, seats are allocated by lottery among applicants with identical priority scores, generating random variation in access. We exploit this design to estimate the causal effect of admission to childcare before age three...
Presented by: Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)
Venue: Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
British Chambers of Commerce new research with our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change looks at the use of AI in the workplace
This paper studies the relationship between special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and educational attainment in England using a uniquely rich linked administrative–survey dataset. We combine the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE1) with the National Pupil Database (NPD) to follow pupils from Key Stage 2 to Key...
Presented by: Tanisha Mittal (Lancaster University)
Venue: 2N2.4.16
A must-attend event for all those involved in commissioning, designing or carrying out social surveys in the UK, presenting the findings of this major three-year research programme
Our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change hosts expert discussion on policies and interventions addressing the potentially gendered effects of parenting