Recent Theoretical Advances in Small Area Estimation
Chair: Peter Levell (IFS)
Recent Advances in the Estimation of General Area Indicators Based on Unit-level Models
Isabel Molina (Complutense University)
Small Area Estimation Using Linked Survey and Register Data
Raymond Chambers (University of Wollongong), Nicola Salvati (University of Pisa) and Enrico Fabrizi (Catholic University Milan)
Small Area Estimation for Skewed Business Survey Populations
Paul Smith (University of Southampton) and Chiara Bocci (University of Florence)
Empirical Work (A)
Chair: Martin Weale (King’s College London)
Spatial Location of Union Membership
Rhys Davies (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data)
Assessing the Effects of High Speed Rail on Local Economies
Helen Simpson (University of Bristol) and Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto)
Urban Sorting and the Measurement of Local Productivity and Worker Skills
Jonathan Halket (Texas and A&M), Lars Nesheim (UCL and CeMMAP) and Mateusz Mysliwski (Norwegian School of Economics)
Empirical Work (B)
Chair: Lars Nesheim (UCL and CeMMAP)
Local Prices and the Cost of Living
Peter Levell (IFS), Lars Nesheim (UCL) and Tao Chen (UCL)
[No slides available]
Consumption and Health-based Indicators of Well-being for Lower Tier Local Authorities in England
Andrew Aitken (OECD) and Martin Weale (King’s College London)
Reconciling Small Area Statistics with Linked Consumer Registers
James Cheshire (UCL) and Paul Longley (UCL)