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Dr Ria Ivandic.

Dr Ria Ivandic

Research Economist

Expertise: political economy, economics of crime

Email:
r.ivandic@lse.ac.uk
Room:
32L 2.11 D
Links:
CEP Community Wellbeing
CEP Labour Markets

Biography

Dr Ivandic is a Postdoctoral Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance and Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Political Economy (DPE) at King's College London and a Master's degree in economics from Univsitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics). She teaches Econometrics at at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Current areas of research include:

  • Political economy, the economics of crime and applied econometrics

Publications

Blog
Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

Domestic abuse increases following football games - and this increase is driven by alcohol-related abuse, a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science finds. The research from the LSE's Centre fo... Read more...

Ria Ivandic

11 October 2021

CEP discussion papers
Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

We study the role of alcohol and emotions in explaining the dynamics in domestic abuse following major football games. We match confidential and uniquely detailed individual call data from Greater Manchester with the tim... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas

04 July 2021

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations
Home Office preparedness for Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

In March 2020 the Home Affairs Committee launched an inquiry into Home Office preparedness for Covid-19. Between April and August it reported on different aspects of Home Office policy and operations during the first ph... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

24 February 2021

CEP discussion papers
Changing patterns of domestic abuse during Covid-19 lockdown

The effects of preventing a COVID-19 health crisis have had unintended consequences on domestic abuse (DA) victimization. We contribute to the literature on domestic abuse in lockdown by providing insight on how changing... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Ben Linton

18 November 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
In brief...Tackling domestic violence using machine learning

Artificial intelligence could help to protect victims of domestic violence, according to research by Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

15 July 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Domestic abuse in times of quarantine

Crime economists Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier look at data on domestic abuse calls to the police in London.... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

15 July 2020

Blog
Home is not a safe place for everyone: domestic abuse between partners increased during lockdown

What has happened to the prevalence and nature of domestic abuse during lockdown? Crime economists Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier collaborated with the Strategic Insights Unit (SIU), from the Metropolitan Police, to answ... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

30 June 2020

Blog
Artificial intelligence could help protect victims of domestic violence

Ria Ivandic finds in the United States, roughly one in four women experience serious intimate partner violence over their lifetimes... Read more...

Ria Ivandic

27 February 2020

CEP discussion papers
Comparing conventional and machine-learning approaches to risk assessment in domestic abuse cases

We compare predictions from a conventional protocol-based approach to risk assessment with those based on a machine-learning approach. We first show that the conventional predictions are less accurate than, and have simi... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

05 February 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Jihadi attacks, the media and anti-Muslim hate crime

Do international jihadi terror attacks lead to an increase in local anti-Muslim hate crimes? Analysing data from the Greater Manchester Police, Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin find that the Muslim populati... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

01 July 2019

Blog
Amplifying Islamophobic hate crime: UK media in the wake of terror attacks

Ria Ivandic,Tom Kirchmaier, and Stephen Machin study the empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks. They find that local Muslim populations face a media-magnified... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

08 May 2019

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations
Islamophobia inquiry 

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Ria Ivandic

01 May 2019

CEP discussion papers
Jihadi attacks, media and local hate crime

Empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks are studied. Based upon rich administrative data from Greater Manchester Police, event studies of ten terror attacks rev... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

30 April 2019

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