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Professor Robert Crouchley

Professor

Research Grants

1979-1981   University of Wales, 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship in Department of Town Planning, UWIST, Cardiff.

1985  ESRC grant of £2,000 to organise a conference at the University of Surrey on Longitudinal Data Analysis.

1987-1991   ESRC, peer review, grant to use the CRAY super computer at ULCC.

1990-2000   One of circa 40 applicants for an Interdisciplinary Research Centre (Director: Professor R. Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE).

1993-1995 ESRC, grant of  £26,980, To Test for the Exogeneity of Area in the SCELI Data for a Competing Risk Model of Labour Mobility. This grant output was classified as good.

1993-1996 ESRC, grant of £12,910, A study of self-employment episodes in the careers of managers (with C. Mills, Professor P. Abell, 1994-1995).

1996-1998 ESRC, grant of  £29,365, Testing for quasi market forces in secondary education (with S. Bradley and Professor J. Taylor, Lancaster University, Department of Economics). This grant output was classified as outstanding

1997-1998   Lancaster University, Committee for Research, grant of £1,500, Some preliminary research on the Youth Cohort Study for England and Wales, (with S. Bradley and Prof. J Taylor).

1997-1999   ESRC, grant of £37,900, A test for the interdependence of the selected areas and labour market mobility in the BHPS data.

1998-2001   ESRC, grant of £82,863, Assessing the consequences of ignoring dropout in panel surveys.

2001-2004   ESRC, grant of £250,000, A High Performance Computing Facility for the Social Sciences.

Research Interests

The development of statistical methods for causal inference in non-experimental data, these include models for errors in variables, missing data, heterogeneity, state dependence non stationarity, event history data, selection effects.

Qualifications

BSc (Loughborough) Civil Engineering, 1971 MSc (UWIST) Town Planning, 1976 PhD (UWIST) Stochastic process theory applied to dwelling tenure, Department of Town Planning (supervisor: Professor Richard B. Davies), 1979. PhD (London) Testing for overdispersion in the parametric proportional hazards and some related models, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College (supervisor: Professor Sir David Cox), 1992.

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