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Workshop

MiSoC workshop on the economics of Higher Education

Date and time
13–14 June 2018, 8:00am–2:30pm
Location
ISER, University of Essex
Presented by
Keynotes: Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University), Todd Stinebrickner (Western University) Speakers from the universities of Zurich, Uppsala, Royal Holloway, Utah, Purdue, Essex & Oslo.
Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: George B. Ploubidis

Date and time
11 June 2018, 3:00pm–4:30pm
Location
ISER Large Seminar Room, 2N2 4.16
Presented by
George B. Ploubidis, UCL Centre for Longutidinal Studies
Seminar

JESS Seminar: Parental Love is Not Blind

Date and time
6 June 2018, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location
2N2.4.16 - ISER Large Seminar Room
Presented by
Nadia Campaniello, Economics (with Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll and Ignacio Monzon)
Seminar

JESS Seminar: Amanda Hughes

Date and time
23 May 2018, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location
Large Seminar Room: 2N2.4.16
Presented by
Amanda Hughes, ISER
Seminar

Can transactional data help to understand human behaviour?

Date and time
21 May 2018, 3:00pm
Location
2N2.4.16
Presented by
Dr Anya Skatova, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in Digital Innovation and Wellbeing, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Training

May 2018 EUROMOD Course

Date and time
9–11 May 2018, 8:30am–4:30pm
Location
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex
Presented by
EUROMOD team
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Workshop

Understanding Society Masterclass: Integrating Genetics and the Social Science

Date and time
26 April 2018, 8:30am–3:45pm
Location
RIBA 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD
Presented by
Professor Daniel Benjamin, Director of the Behavioural and Health Genomics Center, University of Southern California, and Co-Director of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium; Professor Michaela Benzeval, Director of Understanding Society, University of Essex; Professor Meena Kumari, Professor of Biomedical and Social Sciences,Understanding Society, University of Essex;
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Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: tbc

Date and time
23 April 2018, 3:00pm–5:00pm
Location
2N2.4.16
Presented by
Basit Zafar
Seminar

JESS Seminar: Housing Market and Parents’ School Choice Response to School Quality Information Shocks

Date and time
18 April 2018, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location
2N2.5B.24
Presented by
Using a well established disclosure regime, in a setting where there is some limited school choice, this paper investigates the impact of school quality information shocks on both house prices and school choice. Importantly, for the information treatment used in this study – inspection ratings – I establish that (i) students enrolled in a school experiencing an uprating make larger test score gains and (ii) these test score gains are especially large for disadvantaged students. I exploit exogenous temporal variation in the release of ratings to identify their impact along the full school quality distribution. I find robust evidence of the causal impact of changes in ratings on both house prices as well as families’ school choices. The hedonic impact is especially large for homes located near schools serving advantaged students. There is almost no impact for units located near disadvantaged schools; potential explanations include consumer credit constraints and excess capacity at such schools. However, these two explanations are ruled out by the school choice analysis: uprated schools serving disadvantaged students experiences no increase in demand from local families even when these schools are in their choice set.