Institute of Education London

Past Events

Autumn Term

Wednesday 30th September 2009
Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi), "Understanding the Income Gradient in College Attendance in Mexico - The Role of Heterogeneity in Returns to College".

Wednesday 7th October 2009
Olmo Silva (LSE), "The Good, The Bad and The Average: Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools".

Wednesday 14th October 2009
Eirini Flouri (IOE), "Resilience, risk, and psychopathology".

Wednesday 21st October 2009
Ingrid Schoon (IOE), 'Changing education expectations in three British age cohorts: the role of gender and parental education'.

Wednesday 28th October 2009
Stijn Broecke (RHUL), "Does offering more science at school increase the supply of scientists? The impact of triple science at gcse on subsequent educational choices and outcomes".

Wednesday 4th November 2009
Vikki Boliver (Oxford), "Comprehensive or selective schooling: which is better for social mobility?".

Wednesday 11th November 2009
Claire Crawford (IOE and IFS), "The great divide: fixed vs. random effects in an education context".

Wednesday 18th November 2009
Massimiliano Bratti (Uni Milano), "A Selection Endogenous Dummy Ordered Probit Model, with an Application to Drinking Frequency in the UK".

Wednesday 25th November 2009
Giuseppe Migali (Lancaster),"Funding, school specialisation and test scores: An evaluation of the specialist schools policy using matching models."

Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Emma Tominey (UCL and LSE),"The Timing of Parental Income on Child Outcomes: The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks".

Wednesday 9th December 2009
Dongshu Ou (LSE), "Hukou policies and Labour Market Outcomes of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China".

Wednesday 16th December 2009
Ian Walker (Lancaster), "The Effects of Class Size on Education and Earnings".

Spring Term

Wednesday 13th January 2010
Jay Belsky (Birkbeck), "Do Effects of Early Child Care Extend to Age 15 Years? Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development".

Wednesday 20th January 2010
Patrick Nolen (Essex), "Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?".

Wednesday 27th January 2010
John Vorhaus (IOE), "Function and Functional Explanation in Social Capital Theory".Cheti Nicoletti (Essex), TBA,
Room G20, 55-59 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0NU.

Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Elena Meschi (IFS/UCL), "Minimum Wage for Young People and Education Choices".

Wednesday 10th February 2010
John Goldthorpe (Oxford), "Path Analysis with Discrete Variables: the Role of Education in Social Mobility".

Wednesday 17th February 2010
Amy Challen (LSE), "Promoting children's well-being".

Wednesday 24th February 2010
Marcello Sartarelli (IOE), "Measuring school effectiveness".

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Andrew Jenkins (IOE), "Literacy, Numeracy and Disadvantage Among Older Adults: Reviewing the Evidence Base and New Findings from ELSA".

Wednesday 10th March 2010
Anke Plagnol (Cambridge), "What matters for well-being: Individual perceptions of quality of life before and after important life events".
 
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Jane Cooley (Wisconsin), "Spare the Rod?  The Effect of Sanctions on School Performance".

Wednesday 24th March 2010
John MacDonald & Emanuela Sala (ISER), "Two Mini-seminars on `Consent to data linkage'".

Wednesday 31st March 2010
Sin Yi Cheung, (Birmingham), "Are Ethnic Minority Graduates 'over-educated' and under-employed?"

Summer Term

Wednesday 21st April 2010
Cheti Nicoletti (Essex), "Inequality in pupils' educational attainment: How much do family and neighbourhood matter?"

Wednesday 28th April 2010
Rebecca Allen (IOE), "The early impact of Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms".

Wednesday 5th May 2010
John Micklewright (IOE), "Children's cognitive ability and socioeconomic background: changes over age in nine countries".

Wednesday 12th May 2010
Jane Elliott & Samantha Parsons (IOE), "Narratives of Social Mobility: combining qualitative and quantitative data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study".

Wednesday 19th May 2010
Fabrice Murtin (OECD), "The Century of Education".

Wednesday 26th May 2010
Michele Belot (Oxford), "Healthy School Meals on Educational Achievements".

Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Bianca DeStavola (LSHTM), 'Familial and socio-economic influences on foetal growth across three generations:  the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational study, Sweden, 1915-2002'. |  read more.

Wednesday 9th June 2010
Laura Fumagalli (Essex), 'Like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? Ethnic diversity and social participation of young people in England'
Room G20 55-59 Gordon Square.

Wednesday 16th June 2010
Damon Clark (University of Florida), 'The Impacts of Comprehensive Schooling'

Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Jacquelynne Eccles (PSC, University of Michigan), 'Race/Ethnicity as a Context for Adolescent Development'

Autumn Term

Wednesday 29th September 2010
Brian Dodgeon (IOE), 'NCDS Cognitive Tests at Age 50: Initial Results'  |  read more.

Wednesday 6th October 2010
Pedro Martins (Queen Mary), 'Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS'

Wednesday 6th October 2010
Dick Wiggins (IOE), 'Languages, Ethnicity and Education'

Wednesday 27th October 2010
Gregory Jolivet (Bristol), 'Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions Within Markets'

Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Stephen Jenkins (Essex), 'Has income mobility in Britain changed over the last two decades?'

Wednesday 10th November 2010
Ruth Lupton (London School of Economics), 'Neighbourhood Effects: Some Reflections on Measurement, Discourse and Policy'

Wednesday 17th Novemebr 2010
Ingrid Schoon, (IOE) (Cancelled)

Wednesday 24th November 2010
David Voas (Manchester), Belief beyond RE: why is God down and life after death up?

Wednesday 1st December 2010
Paul Atherton (IOE), 'The relative costs and effectiveness of regular and contract teachers in India'
(Cancelled)

Wednesday 8th December 2010
Francis Green (IOE), 'The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School'

Wednesday 15th December 2010
Pamela Giustinelli (Michigan), 'Uncertain Outcomes and Child-Parent Decision Making in Curriculum'

Spring Term

Wednesday 12th January 2011
Guido Schwerdt (Munich), 'Labor Market Effects of Adult Education Vouchers: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment'

Wednesday 19th January 2011
Ioannis Kaplanis (LSE), 'Wage effects from changes in local human capital in Britain'

Wednesday 26th January 2011
John Ermisch  (Essex), 'Inequality in Achievements during Adolescence'

Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Lorenzo Cappellari (Milan), 'Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates'

Wednesday 9th February 2011
Jouni Kuha (London School of Economics), 'Sample Group Means in Multilevel Models' 

Wednesday 16th February 2011
Panu Pelkonnen (Sussex), 'Getting teachers to remote locations in India: Skills versus Preferences' 

Wednesday 23rd February 2011
John Jerrim (IOE/Soton), 'The cognitive achievement of disadvantaged adolescents in England: Are they stuck to the floor or unable to reach the ceiling?'

Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Paul Atherton (IOE), 'The relative costs and effectiveness of regular and contract teachers in India'

Wednesday 16th March 2011
Veruska Oppedisano (UCL), 'Signalling or Human Capital? Evidence from the Expansion of Higher Education Supply in Italy'

Wednesday 23rd March 2011
 Fiona Devine (Manchester), 'Educational and Occupational Aspirations in a Socially Mixed PFI Community High School'.

Summer Term

Wednesday 27th April 2011
Paolo Brunori (University of Bari), 'Fairness in education: the Italian university before and after the reform'.

Wednesday 4th May 2011
Mirko Tonin (Southampton), 'Private and Social Incentives in Effort Provision: An Online Experiment'.

Wednesday 11th May 2011
Lucinda Platt (IOE), 'Girls Like Pink: Explaining sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst children'.

Wednesday 18th May 2011
Martina Viarengo (London School of Economics), 'Does Money Matter for Schools?' (pdf)

Wednesday 25th May 2011
Rita Ginja (Upsala College), 'Preventing Behavior Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from Head Start'.

Wednesday 1st June 2011
Suncica Vujic (London School of Economics), 'The Crime Reducing Effect of Education'.

Wednesday 8th June 2011
John Micklewright (IOE), 'The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income in OECD countries'.

Wednesday 22nd June 2011
Stacey Chen (Academia Sinica and Royal Holloway University of London), 'Estimate the Effects of Sibling Sex Composition on Child Mortality and Education, Using Twins Gender Shocks'.

Wednesday 29th June 2011
Giorgio di Pietro (University of Westminster), 'The Impact of Degree Class on the first Destinations of Graduates: a regression discontinuity approach'.  |  Read more

Wednesday 13th July 2011
Mark Killingsworth (Rutgers University), 'Does childhood religious instruction affect adult earnings?'.