📢 Call for an ESRC-funded advanced quant methods PhD studentship at University of Strathclyde to study housing injustice and children’s outcomes using Growing Up in Scotland data. Available as 1+3 or +3: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...   Please circulate!   #sociology #demography

Do you think that learning more about causal inference is not worth it because you're running experiments anyway, or because you're interested in predictive questions? In that case, I've written a paper just for you, out now in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last paper from our ESRC-funded project on school attendance published. Absences increase students’ risk of being NEET after leaving school. This can only partly be attributed to lower academic achievement: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... More info on project here: schoolattendance.org

Are school absences more harmful to low-SES students? Using linked Census and school admin data for Scotland and a first-difference estimator, we find this for sickness absences but not for total absences and truancy. OA in January issue of Sociology of Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Causal inference is not just a statistics problem” New article by @lucystats.bsky.social, @travisgerke.bsky.social, and @malcolmbarrett.malco.io in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education Open access: doi.org/10.1080/2693... #Stats #DataScience 🧪

📢The first research brief from our Nuffield Foundation project identifies typical school absence trajectories from year 1 to year 11 and their consequences for GCSE achievement in England. Brief: shorturl.at/cvTU7 Preprint: shorturl.at/npxQ2 #edusky #edpolicy #Sociology #socsky

📢Our Nuffield Foundation project on the consequences of school absenteeism (shorturl.at/yHMV7) is seeking a 0.5FTE Research Associate until August 2024. The RA will mainly support our knowledge exchange activities (e.g., policy briefs, blogs, KE events) until the project end: shorturl.at/sQVZ5

Are boys more disadvantaged in academic achievement and behaviour problems when raised in adverse family circumstances? We find this variation in gender differences by maternal education but not by family structure: shorturl.at/gzIK9 Glad this is out now in Socius after 5 rejections 😌 #Sociology