Migration
What factors determine an individual's propensity to migrate? Do people tend to move at certain ages, at particular life events, for employment opportunities or as a response to external factors such as the economic climate or the housing market? Are there people who are likely never to move? How can we disentangle the three temporal effects: age, calendar year and duration of stay at one address?
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Youth
Changes in social and in economic policy and the expansion of post-compulsory education in Britain in the 1980s have had a marked effect on the opportunities available to young people on reaching minimum school leaving age. How do structural factors such as social class, ethnicity, gender and parental education influence young people's routes beyond school?
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Mortality
What is happening to mortality rates in England and Wales over time? How much variation in mortality rates is there between districts? Is this variation just between districts, or are there also differences between the mortality rates of counties? Does mortality vary according to the type of area? What is happening to the variation in mortality rates over time? Multilevel modelling
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Education
Do schools differ in the effects they have on pupil attainment? How can we fairly compare schools accounting for differences in pupil intakes? Do low ability pupils fare better when they are educated alongside higher ability pupils or are they discouraged and fare worse?
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