Events

ISER hosts seminars, conferences, training and workshops throughout the year.

Past events

1,287 events

Seminar

Explaining the stability of occupational sex segregation: The norm of long work hours.

Date and time: 8 June 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Anne Busch (DIW-Berlin)

Seminar

Crime and Mental Wellbeing (joint with Andrew Leigh)

Date and time: 6 June 2011, 3:00pm
Presented by: Francesca Cornaglia (Queen Mary University of London)

Seminar

How NATSEM microsimulation models have had an impact on policy reform in Australia

Date and time: 2 June 2011, 3:00pm–4:32pm
Presented by: Ann Harding (Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy at the University of Canberra)

Seminar

Tax evasion and measurement error: A comparison of survey income with tax records

Date and time: 1 June 2011, 12:00pm–12:00pm
Presented by: Alari Paulus (ISER)

Seminar

Social Assistance in Central and Eastern Europe: A trap or a springboard?

Date and time: 25 May 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Silvia Avram (ISER)

Seminar

Using Sven Goran Erikson to Identify the Education Production Function: Student Effort, Educational Attainment and the World Cup

Date and time: 23 May 2011, 10:53am
Presented by: Simon Burgess (University of Bristol)

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Leverhulme Lecture: Measurement Error: Modelling and Estimation

Date and time: 20 May 2011, 8:30am–2:30pm
Presented by: Christopher Bollinger

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Estimation of Duration Models in the Presence of Measurement Error: Evidence from a BHPS Validation Survey

Date and time: 18 May 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Chris Bollinger (University of Kentucky, ISER Visitor) Annette Jäckle (ISER)

Seminar

Can training help workers to progress in the labour market?

Date and time: 16 May 2011, 3:00am
Presented by: Stephen McKay (University of Birmingham)

Seminar

Estimating the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child outcomes

Date and time: 11 May 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono & Birgitta Rabe (ISER)

Seminar Cancelled

TBA

Date and time: 9 May 2011, 3:00pm
Presented by: Andrew M. Jones (University of York)

Workshop

Pre-school, school and beyond: Improving social mobility through education

Date and time: 6 May 2011, 8:30am–3:00pm
Presented by: John Ermisch and Emilia Del Bono

Seminar

Leaving the Parental Nest and Later Life Socioeconomic Outcomes: Does the Timing of Exit Matter? A Within-Sibling Analysis Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Date and time: 4 May 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Serkos Manoukian (ISER)

Seminar Cancelled

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Date and time: 2 May 2011, 3:35pm

Seminar

Occupational Value Orientations and Young Persons’ Job Choice Decisions

Date and time: 20 April 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Michael Weinhardt (Graduate Centre / SOEP, DIW Berlin, Germany)

Seminar Cancelled

TBA

Date and time: 13 April 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Jane Mullins (Essex Sociology, Visiting Research Fellow)

Conference

Longitudinal approaches to stratification research: International and Comparative Perspectives

Date and time: 13–16 April 2011, 8:00am–4:00pm

Seminar

Monitoring and monetary incentives in addressing absenteeism: evidence from a sequence of policy changes

Date and time: 6 April 2011, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Presented by: Francesco d'Amuri (ISER)

Seminar

Trying to get the same measures using different answer scales? The effect of intensity modifiers on response distributions

Date and time: 23 March 2011, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Ana Villar (Stanford University)

Seminar

Using Behavior Codes to Understand Cultural Variability in Survey Question Processing. – NOTE: this takes place on Tuesday

Date and time: 22 March 2011, 4:00pm
Presented by: Timothy Johnson (University of Illinois at Chicago)