News

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.

Press Release

The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

BBC 2

"I was quite prepared... to use the cover of the statistician's analysis": Former home secretary David Blunkett and Prof Dustmann on the 2003 report on EU accession

British Academy

Professor Christian Dustmann has been elected Fellow of the British Academy in recognition for his academic career and public engagement.

Handelsblatt

Professor Christian Dustmann ranked within the top 3 German speaking economists on the 2017 Handelsblatt ranking.

Brexit

BBC News

Professor Christian Dustmann discussing recent trends in foreign-born worker flows in and out of the UK on the BBC News at One.

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann on BBC Three Counties discussing the likely effects of Brexit on the UK's farming industry.

External Research Fellow

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Email: s.longhi@reading.ac.uk

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Simonetta Longhi

Simonetta Longhi is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Reading. Before that she worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) of the University of Essex. She received her PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2005; since 2005 she is also Research Fellow of IZA, the German Institute for the Study of Labor.

Her current research interests include the determinants and impacts of internal and international migration; wage disparities across individuals and across regions; job search behaviour and occupational change.

Simonetta Longhi joined CReAM as an external fellow in December 2011.