QSS and CLS Seminar series

Summer term

• Social class origin and job quality in the United Kingdom - Mark Williams
• Intergenerational transmission of advantage. Sibling similarity in education across the world - Patrick Präg
• Intergenerational social networks and social integration - Zsófia Boda
• Gender stereotypes in the family - Valentina Tonei
• Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages - Richard Blundell
• Sociogenomic aspects and social dynamics in sleep behaviours and night shift work - Evelina Akimova
• Peer role models in education - Rigissa Megalojonomou

Spring term

• Family background and economic stress in adulthood – Marii Paskov (University of Bristol)
• On track to success? Returns to Vocational Education against its alternatives – Dr Guglielmo Ventura (LSE)
• The indirect consequences of mortality crises – Andrea Tilstra (University of Oxford)
• The child penalty atlas – Gabriel Leite-Mariante (LSE)
• Hostility in destination countries and immigrants’ subjective wellbeing – Michaela Šedovič (UCL)
• Ageing with wellbeing: The contributions of psychosocial assets and deficits – Laura D. Kubzansky (Harvard)
• The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children – Paul Hufe (University of Bristol)
• The effects of austerity on mortality: Evidence from the United Kingdom – Yonatan Berman (King's College London)
• Social transmission of support for authoritarian rule: Evidence from field and survey experiments – Andreas Kotsadam (University of Oslo)

Autumn term

• The fertility impact of mass return migration - Velichka Dimitrova (University of Warwick)
• Starting school and ADHD: When is it time to fly the nest? - Cheti Nicoletti (University of York)
• How business income affects economic inequality - Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)
• Genetics and demography - Felix Tropf (UCL)
• Digital divides? Divergent effects of broadband internet expansion on adolescent educational outcomes - Pablo Gracia (Trinity College Dublin)
• Immigrant integration through volunteering? Potentials and barriers - Hans-Peter Y. Qvist (Aalborg University)
• Noncognitive skills in education: The interplay between genes, environments, and development - Margherita Malanchini (Queen Mary University of London)
• Insurance against risk? Cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states - Selçuk Beduk (University of Oxford) 
• Intergenerational and intersectional life course effect: Evidence from the Romanian abortion ban - Selin Koksal (University of Essex)

Summer term

• Violence against women at work - Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
• Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? - Ludger Woessmann (University of Munich)
• The bones of joblessness? Unemployment and later life health - Joan Costa-i-Font (London School of Economics)
• Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health - Stephanie von Hinke (Bristol University)
• Gendered Flexibility Stigma: Who is likely to be stigmatised when working from home? - Heejung Chung (University of Kent)
• Gender norms do not persist but converge across time - Mayukh Mukhopadhyay (London Business School)
• Nature-nurture interplay in educational attainment -  Niels Rietveld (Erasmus School of Economics)
• Academic self-concept formation: A forty-year overview - Herb Marsh (Australian Catholic University) 

Spring term

• Youth, urbanisation, and insurgent recruitment in Turkey - Ollie Ballinger (UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis)
• Regional income differences and intergenerational income mobility - Erik Liss (Linköping University)
• The effect of extending parental leave on women's health - Emilie Courtin (LSHTM)
• Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas -  Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics)
• The financial dimension of organisational stratification in European higher education - Petra Sauer (Luxembourg Institute for Socio-economic Research)
• The Generations and Gender Survey in the UK: Investigating demographic changes in the family - Brienna Perelli-Harris and Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton)
• Trends in child and adolescent mental health: Priorities for research - Stephan Collishaw (Cardiff University)

Autumn term

• Disrupting science - Giorgio Presidente (University of Oxford)
• Smart matching platforms and heterogeneous beliefs in centralised school choice - Christopher A. Neilson (Yale University)
• Inequality and class divides in parental transfers to young adults in the United States - Ginevra Floridi (Nuffield College, Oxford)
• Parenting and the intergenerational transmission of inequality - Jasmin Wertz (University of Edinburgh)
• Discrimination based on social class: Insights from field and survey data - Diana Galos (Aarhus University)
• Partner Violence and the Financial Well-Being of Women: Results from Australia - Professor Bruce Chapman
• The educational impacts of expanded contraceptive access in the contemporary U.S. - Sara Yeatman (UC Denver)
• Single parents, gender, and health inequalities - Mine Kühn (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
• Gender, reputation, and social support: The dynamics of sociality and standing in rural South India - Eleanor Power (LSE)

Summer term

• The Female Happiness Paradox - Alex Bryson (QSS)
• Changing dietary habits early in life: A field experiment with low income families - Michele Belot (Cornell University).
• Family goals and behaviour in an international comparative analysis - Alicia Adsera (Princeton)
• The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Comparing the Labor-Market Returns to For-Profit Schools and Community Colleges - Ken Troske (University of Kentucky)
• Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century - Rick Settersten and Glen Elder (Oregon State University/ University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
• Women in Economics. The role of gendered advising practices at entry in the profession - Lucia Rizzica (Bank of Italy)
• Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom - Heini Vaisanen (INED)

Spring term

• Perceived socioeconomic status and health: A longitudinal biomarker approach - Patrick Präg (ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
• Smart-working: Work flexibility without constraints - Paola Profeta (Bocconi University)
• Immigrant peers and foreign language acquisition - Colin Green (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)
• The long-run effects of longer follow-up. Evidence on the importance of childhood health interventions from a historical trial - Miriam Wust (University of Copenhagen)
• The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being and transitions to post-secondary education - Malte Sandner (Institute for Employment Research, IAB - Germany)                
• Changing gender norms across generations: Evidence from a paternity leave reform - Libertad Gonzalez (Pompeu Fabra University)
• Maternal age and infant health - Cristina Borra (University of Seville)
• Gender equality for whom? The changing division of paid work and housework among US couples - Lea Pessin (Penn State)

Autumn term

• Showcasing Quantitative Social Science (QSS) COVID-19 research - Kirstine Hansen and Alex Bryson (IOE).
• Understanding adaptation among the children of immigrants and refugees: What we can learn from recent quantitative research and how we can go beyond the limits of current knowledge? - Ben Wilson (Stockholm University Demography Unit).
• Low school belonging and the link to education, employment, or training - Philip Parker (Australian Catholic University).
• Social Research Institute showcase: Quantitative Social Science (QSS) COVID projects - Golo Henseke and Bożena Wielgoszewska (IOE).
• School types: evidence on the relative effectiveness of different school arrangements - Marco Bertoni (University of Padua).
• A new look at the separation surge in Europe: contrasting adult and child perspectives - Thomas Leopold (University of Cologne).
• Improving workplace climate in large corporations: a clustered randomized intervention - Sule Alan (European University Institute).
• Secondary effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal outcomes in the US - Alison Gemmill (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).

• COVID-19: School closures and educational inequality - Larissa Zierow, ifo Institute
• The effects of birth spacing on health and socioeconomic outcomes: evidence from the Utah Population Database - Kieron Barclay, Stockholm University.
• Asian gold: expected returns to crime and thieves’ behaviour - Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway
• Employment and mental health: towards a shorter standard working week? - Daiga Kamerāde, University of Salford
• Adverse youth experiences and children’s development and education: resources and resilience - Carlijn Bussemakers, Radboud University
• Ethnic differences in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic - Alita Nandi, University of Essex
• Structural racism and health stratification in the US - Tyson Brown, Duke University 
• Can parental leave break the glass ceiling? - Astrid Kunze, Norwegian School of Economics
• Perspectives from a pandemic: demographic insights and battling the 'infodemic' - Jennifer Dowd, University of Oxford
• Handling non-response in COVID-19 surveys across five national longitudinal studies - Richard Silverwood, IOE
• Family relationship influences on child and adolescent mental health - Gordon Harold, University of Cambridge

• Can school make our children happier? Exploring adolescents' wellbeing and mental health in PISA studies - Jose Marquez, University of Cambridge
• Italian families in the 21st century: gender gaps in time use and their evolution - Chiara Monfardini, The University of Bologna
• The link between previous life trajectories and a later life outcome - Matthias Studer, The University of Geneva 
• Does Rosie like riveting? Male and female occupational choices - Grace Lordan, London School of Economics (LSE)
• Growing educational inequalities in subjective well-being across the life course? The role of differential risks for and consequences of personal and partner’s unemployment - Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Umea University
• The effect of decreased general training on skills, education and employment - Zoltan Hermann, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Corvinus University of Budapest
• Fear of the future: an exploration of a novel determinant of fertility transitions - Nicoletta Balbo, Bocconi University
• Discrimination and racial disparities in labour market outcomes: evidence from WWII - Anna Aizer, Brown University
• The value of a peer - Ingo Isphording, IZA

• The impacts of COVID-19 on people with disabilities and chronic health conditions - David Pettinicchio, University of Toronto
• The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted school bullying and cyberbullying - Joshua Goodman , Boston University
• Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: a selection or a causal effect? - Moris Triventi, University of Trento
• Behavioural insights and parental decision-making - Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
• Revealing stereotypes: evidence from immigrant students in schools - Michela Carlana, Harvard University
• Gender differences in peer recognition by economists - Nagore Iriberri, University of the Basque Country

• The complexity of education policies and social inequality in school systems - Louis Volante, Brock University
• The impact of all-day schools on students’ skills- Larissa Zierow, ifo Institute
• Exploring and explaining pathways in crime - Kyle Treiber and Gabriela Roman, University of Cambridge
• Stay a Little Longer? Teacher Turnover, Seniority and Quality in French Disadvantaged Schools - Asma Benhenda, IOE
• How DNA makes us who we are - Robert Plomin, King’s College London
• Ethnic fluidity and ethnic identity negotiations in school - Zsófia Boda, ETH Zurich
• Polygenic scores and cognitive development: some cautionary tales - Stuart Ritchie, King’s College London
• School choice in England: Evidence from national administrative data - Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge
• How robust are intergenerational income correlations? - Per Engzell, University of Oxford
• Does Rosie like riveting? Male and female occupational choices - Grace Lordan, London School of Economics
• Peers and careers: Alumni networks and labour market outcomes - Andrei Gorshkov, Aarhus University

• Reducing police misconduct and use of force through procedural justice training - George Wood, Northwestern University
• The burden of reproductive histories and health status later in life in Indonesia - Tiziana Leone, London School of Economics (LSE)
• The organisational economics of school chains - Professor Olmo Silva, LSE
• DIY or ask someone nice? - Marina Della Giusta, University of Reading
• Should I make an effort? Educational trajectories in Switzerland - Kaspar Burger, UCL
• The social gap in higher education: new evidence from sibling data - Cristina Iannelli, University of Edinburgh

• The effect on human capital accumulation of choosing maths at post-secondary school - Greta Morando, IOE
• The health effects of early interventions: Evidence from Sure Start - Sarah Cattan, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Learning through test practice: A randomized field experiment with PISA on a global scale - Francesca Borgonovi, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Wage growth and bargaining in the minimum wage era - Kerry Papps, University of Bath
• Wages and labour productivity: Evidence from injuries in the National Football League - Dr Ian Gregory-Smith, University of Sheffield
• Education and intelligence: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomisation analysis - Dr Neil Davies, University of Bristol
• Student preferences over fees, grants and loans - Emilia Del Bono, University of Essex
• Later pension, poorer health? Evidence from the new State Pension age in the UK - Mauricio Avendano, Kings College London
• Relationships between physical and mental health changes in later life in Europe - Katherine Keenan, University of St Andrew
• Mother tongue reading materials in early primary school - Margaret Leighton, University of St Andrew
• Tony Atkinson's last book: 'Measuring Poverty around the World' - John Micklewright, UCL

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

• The returns to university in the UK: New evidence from administrative data - Jack Britton, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Addressing identification challenges concerning neighbourhood effects on individual wellbeing - Gundi Knies, University of Esse
• The development, causes and consequences of childhood obesity: exploring heterogeneity using multiple birth cohorts - Dr Will Johnson, Loughborough University
• The effects of pay decentralisation on teachers' pay and retention - Bilal Nasim, IOE
• Behavioural feedback: Do individual choices influence scientific results? - Emily Oster, Brown University

• Residential mobility and tenure changes among separated individuals - Hill Kulu, University of St Andrew
• Peers in early Childhood Education and Care settings in Germany: who are they? - Ludovica Gambaro, DIW Berlin
• Management quality in Israeli public education - Victor Lavy, University of Warwick
• The effects of introducing the minimum wage in Germany - Attila Linder, UCL Economics
• The optimal length of a working day: evidence from Hawthorne experiments - Peter Dolton, University of Sussex
• Where do all the STEM graduates go? - Emma Smith, University of Warwick
• Intergenerational transmission of family adversity: examining risk factors - Ingrid Schoon, IOE
• School absenteeism in Malawi: trends, influences and impact of cleaner burning cookstoves - Christine Kelly, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Bias in regressions with censoring on both sides - Martin Weale, Kings College London
• Crime-age profiles and school dropout - Brian Bell, Kings College London

• Outcomes of fertility treatments for children and families - Anna Barbuscia (London School of Economics)
• Trade-off in children's time allocation: embodied capital model of demographic transition in Tanzania - Sophie Hedge, PHD candidate at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Using web surveys to measure sexual behaviour and attitudes in the general population - Bob Erens, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• The kids are alright: the rise in non-marital births and child well-being - Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University
• The role of inter-parental relationships in predicting child outcomes - Natasha Codiroli McMaster, PhD Student, IOE
• Is marriage still best for health, wealth, and well-being?- Brienna Perelli-Harris, University of Southampton
• Equal opportunities in access to higher education in Chile - Michela Tincani, UCL Economics

• Absence, substitutability and productivity: evidence from teachers - Asma Benhenda, Paris School of Economics
• Endogenous selection bias and cumulative inequality over the life course - Alex Patzina, Institute for Employment Research, IAB
• The response to nutritional labels: evidence from a quasi-experiment - Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, University of Bristol
• Child health inequalities in the UK - Anna Pearce, University of Glasgow
• Civic inequalities across the United States - Dingeman Wiertz, University of Oxford
• 24/7 economy in the Millennium Cohort Study: maternal and paternal non-standard working - Afshin Zilanawala, UCL Epidemiology & Public Health
• The decline and persistence of the 'Old Boy': private schools and elite recruitment - Aaron Reeves, London School of Economics
• Childhood infections and labour market outcomes in adulthood - Jutta Viinikainen, University of Jyväskylä
• Elite education and social mobility - Alice Sullivan, IOE

• High-stakes accountability and teacher turnover - Sam Sims, IOE
• The association between depression risk alleles and a specific depressive profile in childhood and adolescence - Lucy Riglin, Cardiff University
• Sibling spillover effects in school achievement - Cheti Nicoletti, University of York
• Individual differences in environmental sensitivity - Michael Pluess, Queen Mary's London
• The changing context of contraceptive choice across the reproductive life course in the USA and Britain - Megan Sweeney, UCLA
• Assortative mating: a genetic assessment - Climent Quintana-Domeque, University of Oxford
• The role of social class in ethnic minorities' educational and labour market outcomes - Lucinda Platt, LSE
• Housework: gender norms and personality - Maria Iacovou, University of Cambridge
• Gender empowerment programmes for violence prevention: objective empowerment and subjective wellbeing - Giulia Ferrari, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• The direct effect of social origins on social mobility chances - Erzsebet Bukodi, University of Oxford