Seminars

• Detecting drivers of behavior at an early age: Evidence from a longitudinal experiment

  November 29, 2019 - Presented by Associate Professor Marco Castillo from Texas A&M University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Families in times of Recession: Irish exceptionalism?

  February 17, 2020 - Presented by Dr Carmel Hannan from University of Limerick, Ireland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Education as a Pathway out of Poverty – Anti-Poverty Week 2019 event

  October 17, 2019 - Presented by Professor Rebekah Levine Coley from Boston College & Dr Matteo Sandi from London School of Economics, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Anti-Poverty Week Presentation

  October 16, 2019 - Presented by Edwina Chen & Hugh Harley, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Putting Young Children on a Path to Success: Mechanisms Transmitting Income Inequality

  October 15, 2019 - Presented by Professor Rebekah Levine Coley, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Anti-Poverty Week Book Launch: Food Stamps and the Working Poor

  October 15, 2019 - Presented by Professor David C. Ribar from The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

• (Growing) Up in Smoke? The impact of prenatal and postnatal maternal smoking on child development

  October 14, 2019 - Presented by Associate Professor Gabriella Conti from University College London, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Does the provision of time resources reduce stress? Causal evidence

  August 15, 2019 - Presented by Prof Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Language growth from 4 to 8 and developmental circumstances: Meeting policy demands from the early years sector.

  July 10, 2019 - Presented by Professor Stephen Zubrick from The University of Western Australia, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Photo-elicitation interviews with vulnerable populations: Practical and ethical considerations

  June 6, 2019 - Presented by Professor Heith Copes from The University of Alabama at Birmingham hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Women and Meth: Finding self-worth in the midst of poverty, abuse, and addiction

  June 4, 2019 - Presented by Professor Heith Copes from The University of Alabama at Birmingham hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence & Update from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting

  May 31, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Orla Doyle from University College Dublin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Explaining the evolution of ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: The role of time investments.

  May 2, 2019 - Presented by Francis Mitrou and Ha Nguyen from Telethon Kids Institute, Western Australia hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Brown Bag Seminar

  April 15, 2019 - Presented by Dr Lisa Calderwood, Centre for Longitudinal Studies - UCL Institute of Education, London hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Test Anxiety under 15-year olds – A comparative study between Australia and The Netherlands

  April 11, 2019 - Presented by Tim de Vries from Utrecht University, The Netherlands hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Quantitative social science for health and wellbeing research: the COMPASS Research Centre

  April 4, 2019 - Presented by Dr Barry Milne and Dr Nichola Shackleton from The University of Auckland, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Australian Muslims: The Challenge of Islamophobia and Social Distance

  March 27, 2019 - Presented by Professor Riaz Hassan, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Choosing Schools and School Choice

  March 8, 2019 - Presented by Professor Ian Walker from Lancaster University, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• ‘Un-neighbourliness’: The neighbourhood context of problems and disputes between neighbours

  March 6, 2019 - Presented by Professor Lynda Cheshire from The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Fun with stats: Making the most of Stata software

  Thursday, 31 January 2019 - Presented by Dr Paco Perales, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Exploring the Ethics of Welfare Conditionality

  November 8, 2018 - Presented by Dr Beth Watts, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Economics: Anti-Poverty Week Seminar

  October 18, 2018 - Presented by Richard Gibbs, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Gender attitudes: do we know what we are measuring?

  October 15, 2018 - Presented by Professor Ester Rizzi from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Education: the Panacea to Poverty?

  October 09, 2018 - Presented by Dr Matteo Sandi, London School of Economics and Dr Tony Beatton, The University of Queensland hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Citizenship and Immigrant Anti-rumour Strategies: A Critical Outlook from the Barcelona Case

  August 9, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Òscar Prieto-Flores from University of Girona, Spain, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

  August 9, 2017 - presented by Dr Nathan Kettlewell from The University of Sydney, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

• The Impact of Terrorism on Individual Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing

  July 26, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Orla Doyle from University College Dublin, hosted by Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

• Inequalities in Mother’s Lives and Disparities in Children’s Education in Multiple Countries

  July 23, 2018 - Presented by Professor Robert Crosnoe from University of Texas at Austin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Economic Uncertainty and Love: Family Building Behaviors in Young Adulthood

  July 23, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Shannon Cavanagh from University of Texas at Austin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• The Tenuous Attachments of Working Class Men

  June 13, 2018 - Presented by Professor Kathryn Edin from Princeton University hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Perceived returns from early-life investments and maternal investments in children

  April 29, 2018 - Presented by Adeline Delavande from the University of Essex, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Showing Up: Chronic Absenteeism Disparities Between Students with and without Disabilities

  April 27, 2018 - Presented by Associate Professor Michael Gottfried at Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• The Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform

  April 6, 2018 - Presented by Kai Liu from the University of Cambridge hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Unconditional Basic Income

  March 26, 2018 - Presented by Professor Erik Olin Wright from the University of Wisconsin, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• Daughters and Divorce

  March 8, 2018 - Presented by David C. Ribar from the University of Melbourne, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Modelling within-household associations in household panel studies

  November 15, 2017 - Presented by Professor Fiona Steele from the London School of Economics, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• High School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM

  September 28, 2017 - Presented by Professor A. Abigail Payne from the University of Melbourne, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Risky Business: Correlation and Causation in Longitudinal Studies of Skill Development

  September 7, 2017 - Presented by Professor Greg Duncan from the University of California, Irvine hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

• The long-run effects of minimum wages and other anti-poverty policies on disadvantaged neighbourhoods

  August 28, 2017 - Presented by David Neumark from the University of California-Irvine, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Building the skills of parents experiencing adversity

  March 30, 2017 - Presented by Professor Cate Taylor, hosted by Telethon Kids Institute, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility

  March 24, 2017 - Presented by Kjell Salvanes from the Norwegian School of Economics, hosted by the School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

• Defining Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – How does Australia’s most prevalent brain affliction remain invisible to meaningful intervention?

  March 7, 2017 - Presented by Dr Janet Hammill, hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND