Seminar series

Quantitative Social Science (QSS) hosts a weekly seminar series, where invited speakers present work of relevance to the research interests of the group.

Schedule

Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 13.00 -14.00 at Centre for Longitudinal Studies, 55-59 Gordon Square, room G02. Please note the venue listed on the event page in case of room changes.

The seminars are open to the general public and all are welcome to attend.

Speaker programme

Spring term 2020

More seminar titles for Spring 2020 are to be confirmed.

See all forthcoming QSS events.

Previous seminars

2019-20

Autumn term

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
18 September 2019	The complexity of education policies and social inequality in school systems	Louis Volante	Brock University
2 October 2019	Exploring and explaining pathways in crime	Kyle Treiber and Gabriela Roman	University of Cambridge
9 October 2019	Stay a Little Longer? Teacher Turnover, Seniority and Quality in French Disadvantaged Schools	Asma Benhenda	UCL Institute of Education
16 October 2019	How DNA makes us who we are	Robert Plomin	King’s College London
23 October 2019	Ethnic fluidity and ethnic identity negotiations in school	Zsófia Boda	ETH Zurich
30 October 2019	Polygenic scores and cognitive development: some cautionary tales	Stuart Ritchie	King’s College London
13 November 2019	School choice in England: Evidence from national administrative data	Anna Vignoles	University of Cambridge
20 November 2019	How robust are intergenerational income correlations?	Per Engzell	University of Oxford
27 November 2019	Does Rosie like riveting? Male and female occupational choices	Grace Lordan	London School of Economics
11 December 2019	Peers and careers: Alumni networks and labour market outcomes	Andrei Gorshkov	Aarhus University

2018-19

Autumn term

Date	Title	Speaker(s)
3 October 2018	The effect on human capital accumulation of choosing maths at post-secondary school	Greta Morando (UCL Institute of Education)
10 October 2018	Learning through test practice: A randomized field experiment with PISA on a global scale	Francesca Borgonovi (OECD)
17 October 2018	Wage growth and bargaining in the minimum wage era	Kerry Papps (University of Bath)
24 October 2018	Wages and labour productivity: Evidence from injuries in the National Football League	Dr Ian Gregory-Smith (University of Sheffield)
31 October 2018	Education and intelligence: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomisation analysis	Dr Neil Davies (University of Bristol)
14 November 2018	Student preferences over fees, grants and loans	Emilia Del Bono (ISER, University of Essex)
21 November 2018	Later pension, poorer health? Evidence from the new State Pension age in the UK	Mauricio Avendano (Kings College London)
28 November 2018	Relationships between physical and mental health changes in later life in Europe	Katherine Keenan (University of St Andrew)
5 December 2018	Mother tongue reading materials in early primary school	Margaret Leighton (University of St Andrew)
12 December 2018	Tony Atkinson's last book: 'Measuring Poverty around the World'	John Micklewright (UCL)

Spring term

Date	Title	Speaker(s)
9 January 2019	Compulsory education and direct impacts on teenage Roma women	Anna Adamecz-Volgyi (UCL Institute of Education)
16 January 2019	Trends in relationship formation based on parental wealth	Sander Wagner (ENSAE Paris)
23 January 2019	Genes, gender inequality, and educational attainment	Pamela Herd (Georgetown University)
6 February 2019	How reification of merit breeds inequality: theory and experimental evidence	Fabien Accominotti (LSE)
20 February 2019	Methodological insights and empirical evidence about Italian primary and secondary schools	Tommaso Agasisti (Politecnico di Milano School of Management)
27 February 2019	Sorting for schools: the consequences of school choice on local neighbourhoods	Ellen Greaves (University of Bristol)
6 March 2019	Parents' behavioural response to conflict	Valentina Tonei (UCL Institute of Education)
13 March 2019	Multiple mediators in observational studies	Professor Bianca De Stavola (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
20 March 2019	State power and self-reinforcing secularisation: East and West Germany 1949-2010	Professor Jörg Stolz (University of Lausanne)

Summer term

Date	Title	Speaker(s)
24 April 2019	The returns to university in the UK: New evidence from administrative data	Jack Britton (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
1 May 2019	Addressing identification challenges concerning neighbourhood effects on individual wellbeing	Gundi Knies (ISER, University of Essex)
8 May 2019	The development, causes and consequences of childhood obesity: exploring heterogeneity using multiple birth cohorts	Dr Will Johnson (Loughborough University)
15 May 2019	The effects of pay decentralisation on teachers' pay and retention	Bilal Nasim (UCL Insitute of Education)
22 May 2019	TBC	Dylan Kneale (UCL Insitute of Education)
29 May 2019	Behavioural feedback: Do individual choices influence scientific results?	Emily Oster (Brown University)
5 June 2019	The health effects of early interventions: Evidence from Sure Start	Sarah Cattan (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

2017-18

Autumn term

Date	Speaker
4 October 2017	Hill Kulu (University of St Andrew)
11 October 2017	Victor Lavy (University of Warwick)
18 October 2017	Attila Linder (UCL Economics)
25 October 2017	Peter Dolton (University of Sussex)
1 November 2017	Emma Smith (University of Warwick)
15 November 2017	Ingrid Schoon (UCL Institute of Education)
22 November 2017	Christine Kelly (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
29 November 2017	Cancelled: Dingeman Wiertz (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
6 December 2017	Martin Weale (Kings College London)
13 December 2017	Brian Bell (Kings College London)

Spring term

Date	Speaker
10 January 2018	Anna Barbuscia (London School of Economics)
17 January 2018	Sophie Hedge (PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
24 January 2018	Bob Erens (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
31 January 2018	Christina Gibson-Davis (Duke University)
7 February 2018	Natasha Codiroli McMaster (PhD Student, QSS)
21 February 2018	Brienna Perelli-Harris (University of Southampton)
28 February 2018	Cancelled: Emilia Del Bono (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)
7 March 2018	Cancelled: Alex Patzina (Institute of Employment Research, IAB)
14 March 2018	Cancelled: Sander Wagner (Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance)
21 March 2018	Michela Tincani (UCL Economics)

Summer term

Date	Speaker
25 April 2018	Asma Benhenda (Paris School of Economics)
2 May 2018	Alex Patzina (Institute for Employment Research, IAB)
9 May 2018	Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder (University of Bristol)
16 May 2018	Anna Pearce (University of Glasgow)
23 May 2018	Dingeman Wiertz (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
30 May 2018	Afshin Zilanawala (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health)
6 June 2018	Aaron Reeves (London School of Economics)
13 June 2018	Jutta Viinikainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
20 June 2018	Alice Sullivan (UCL Institute of Education)
27 June 2018	Ludovica Gambaro (DIW Berlin)

2016-17

Spring term

Date	Speaker
11 January 2017	Sam Sims (UCL Institute of Education)
18 January 2017	Lucy Riglin (Cardiff University)
25 January 2017	Michael Pluess (Queen Mary's London)
1 February 2017	Megan Sweeney (UCLA, Sociology)
8 February 2017	Climent Quintana-Domeque (University of Oxford, Economics)
22 February 2017	Lucinda Platt (LSE)
1 March 2017	Maria Iacovou (University of Cambridge, Sociology)
8 March 2017	Giulia Ferrari (LSHTM)
15 March 2017	Erzsebet Bukodi (University of Oxford, Social Policy)
22 March 2017	Cheti Nicoletti (University of York, Economics)

 

Series convenors

Dr Bozena Wielgoszewska
Dr Dingeman Wiertz