Events

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

Past events

1,287 events

Seminar

Is Beauty Only Skin-Deep? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show

Date and time: 30 May 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Michele Belot (Department of Economics, University of Essex) (joint with V. Bhaskar and Jeroen van de Ven)

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Mortality and the Baseball Hall of Fame: An Investigation into the Role of Status in Life Expectancy

Date and time: 29 May 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: Kenneth Chay (Berkeley, University of California)

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The Impact of Higher Education Supply on Schooling: Evidence from Italy’s University Devolution

Date and time: 23 May 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Massimiliano Bratti (ECASS visitor, DEAS Universit‡ degli Studi di Milano) (joint with Daniele Checchi and Guido de Blasio)

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Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance

Date and time: 21 May 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford)

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The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study

Date and time: 16 May 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Martin Kroh (DIW Berlin)

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Consumption Inequality and Partial Insurance

Date and time: 14 May 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: Richard Blundell (University College London)

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Understanding Italian inequality trends: a simulation-based decomposition

Date and time: 9 May 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Carlo V. Fiorio (ECASS visitor, University of Milan and Econpubblic)

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Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using IV Quantile Treatment Effect Model

Date and time: 2 May 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Daniela Vuri (ECASS visitor, Economic Department, University of Tor Vergata) (joint with Vincenzo Atella and Noemi Pace)

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Date and time: 30 April 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: Albrecht Glitz (University College London)

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The Effect of Unexpected Job Loss on Fertility Decisions. Evidence from Firm Closures

Date and time: 25 April 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono (ISER) (joint with Andrea Weber and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer)

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How Italian Electors React to Gender Quotas? A random utility model of voting behaviour

Date and time: 23 April 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: Maria Laura Di Tommaso (University of Turin)

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Is Leaving Home a Strategy for Young People to Escape Poverty?

Date and time: 18 April 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Lavinia Parisi (ISER)

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A Valuation of Childcare Provided by Parents in the United Kingdom:Inputs and outputs

Date and time: 11 April 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Killian Mullan (ISER)

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Re-Examining the Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants: The Relevance of Selection into the Labor Market and Labor Market Experience

Date and time: 28 March 2007, 12:00pm
Presented by: Taryn Ann Galloway (Statistics Norway)

Seminar

How Reliable are Income Data Collected with a Single Question?

Date and time: 26 March 2007, 3:00pm
Presented by: John Micklewright (Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI), University of Southampton)

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Food Consumption, Socio-economic Status and Food Outlet Development in Britain

Date and time: 21 March 2007, 1:00pm
Presented by: Paola De Agostini (ISER)

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Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: a nonparametric evaluation of the effect of unemployment benefits on migration in Germany

Date and time: 19 March 2007, 4:00pm
Presented by: Ralf Wilke (University of Leicester)

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The Merits of Valuable Resource Distributions: Reactions from the (un)Fairly Advantaged and Disadvantaged

Date and time: 14 March 2007, 1:00pm
Presented by: Philip J. Cozzolino (Psychology Department, University of Essex)

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New Cartographies of Knowing Capitalism and the Changing Jurisidiction of Empirical Sociology

Date and time: 12 March 2007, 4:00pm
Presented by: Roger Burrows (University of York)

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Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility in the Old and New Middle Class in the Netherlands 1970-2004

Date and time: 7 March 2007, 1:00pm
Presented by: Ayse Guveli (Department of Sociology, University of Essex)