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In a new study, published in Advances in Life Course Research, Nuffield College and LCDS DPhil student Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela Struffolino, and Nuffield College associate member Zachary Van Winkle systematically review 86 analyses on the associations between family demographic processes and in-work poverty in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union (EU) countries.

In their recent paper published in Population and Environment, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nuffield College and LCDS affiliated postdoctoral researcher Tobias Rüttenauer investigate the effect of stricter Congestion Charge rules on air pollution and school absences in London.

A recent article in Criminology by LCDS and CSI Nuffield College researcher Chuck Lanfear reveals that while collective efficacy enables neighbourhoods to reduce crime directly, it also empowers them to reduce crime indirectly by preventing or removing features of the built environment that provide opportunities for crime.

What is the effect of mass schooling on women's autonomy? In a new article in Demography, LCDS postdoctoral researcher Daniela Urbina addresses this question by focusing on the case of Latin American countries that implemented compulsory schooling laws in the 90.

New work recently published in the journal Demography, by our LCDS and Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology, Ramina Sotoudeh.

Did Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer yield tangible benefits to racial progress and reduce discriminatory practices in the US? New experimental research by LCDS researchers, Dave Kirk and Marti Rovira reveals that at least temporarily, levels of employment discrimination against Black applicants to entry-level jobs declined in the aftermath of the 2020 protests.

Congratulations to our own LCDS Deputy Director Jenn Dowd Editor in Chief and Founding Member of Dear Pandemic, for being chosen as a case study by the World Health Organisation for innovative science communication!!

Our own Ridhi Kashyap, Associate Professor of Social Demography and core member of LCDS has been appointed as a new Editorial Committee member of one of demography's flagship journals Population and Development Review.