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Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Press Release

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.

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

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

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Daniel Parent

Daniel Parent received his PhD in economics from the University of Montreal in 1995. He is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Economics at McGill University. He is also a Fellow at the Inter-university Center on Risk, Economic Policies and Employment (CIRPEE) and a Research Fellow at the Centre interuniversitaire en analyse des organisations (CIRANO). In addition he also serves as a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Committee on Labour and Income Statistics, and is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Economics. He was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1995 as well as Visiting Faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004-2005.

His research interests are in labour economics, the economics of education, and immigration. His recent research has focused on the short and long-term impacts of working while enrolled in high school, U.S.-Canada comparisons of the determinants of worker training , the long-term impact of ethnically concentrated immigration on the descendants of immigrants, as well as the impact of performance pay on expanding U.S. earnings inequalities. He has published in leading economics journals, as well as in books and conference proceedings. His Ph.D. dissertation received a prize from the Société canadienne de sciences économiques in 1996 for the best paper published out of a recently awarded dissertation.

Daniel Parent joined CReAM as an external fellow in April 2006.