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Disadvantaged boys benefit most from early school years

Research by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Cornelissen finds that boys from disadvantaged backgrounds benefit most from early schooling, helping to narrow the skills gap (60-80%) with boys from high socio-economic backgrounds.

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Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

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Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

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Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

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The Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) is an independent and interdisciplinary research centre located in the Department of Economics at University College London. CReAM aims at informing the public debate on labour economics and migration in the UK and in Europe by providing new insight, helping to steer the current policy debate in a direction that is based on carefully researched evidence without partisan bias. CReAM contributes to the development of new theories and methodological advances in data analysis, ensuring the ability to contribute and inform on a wide range of issues of policy concern, and establishing a reputation for analysis that is accepted as open, transparent and reliable. Research conducted within the Centre is both theoretical and empirical. CReAM’s research is distributed to international lists focused on Labour Economics. CReAM contributes significantly to the public and policy debate on migration and labour economics in the UK and beyond.
 

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DPEarly School Exposure, Test Scores, and Noncognitive Outcomes (Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Dustmann)

 

DPThe Fiscal Lifetime Cost of Receiving Refugees (Joakim Ruist)

 

DPRefugees’ Self-selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where? (Cevat Giray Aksoy and Panu Poutvaara)

 

DPOccupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes (Herbert Brücker, Albrecht Glitz, Adrian Lerche and, Agnese Romiti)

 

CReAM                         Events

CReAM - Seminar in Applied Economics Shing-Yi Wang (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)

"The Labor Market Consequences of Having a Boy"

CReAM - Brown Bag Hale Utar (Bielefeld University)

"Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug Wars"

CReAM - Seminar in Applied Economics

CReAM and the Department of Economics at UCL are organising the CReAM - Seminar in Applied Economics for the second year. The seminar will run on the 2018/2019 academic year on Mondays 4:00-5:30 and is jointly organised by Christian Dustmann, Imran Rasul, Hyejin Ku and Marcos Vera Hernandez.

CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar

CReAM is organising the CReAM - Brown Bag Seminar on Tuesdays 12.30-1.30 pm at Room 321 in Drayton House. The seminar is organised by Barbara Boelmann.

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