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Ria Ivandic.

Ria Ivandic

Associate

Expertise: Political Economy, Economics of Crime

Email:
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rivandic@net.efzg.hr>
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University of Zagreb

Biography

Dr Ria Ivandic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb. Prior to this she was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Department of Politics and International Relations). 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 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics).

Current areas of research include:

  • Political economy; the economics of crime and applied econometrics

Publications

Journal article
Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe

Why was compulsory voting (CV) adopted in a moment when the Left was mobilized and enfranchisement was extended? We answer this apparent paradox by developing an argument explaining that making voting mandatory, in fact,... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Rubén Ruiz-Rufno

08 January 2025

Blog
What makes the child penalty in academia different?

Women are underrepresented in senior academic positions in economics. Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen assess the impact of having children on men and women's career trajectories and suggest how the sector can adapt.... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

29 October 2024

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Parenthood and academia

Women are underrepresented in senior academic positions in economics. Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen assess the impact of having children on men and women's career trajectories.... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

18 October 2024

Journal article
International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes

This paper studies the effects of international terror attacks on out-group hate crimes committed against Muslims in a local setting. Event studies based on rich administrative data from the Greater Manchester Police on ... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Stephen Machin

01 August 2024

Journal article
Can Social Media Reach Isolated Domestic Abuse Victims? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial During the Covid-19 Lockdown

Research Questions Can social media reach isolated domestic abuse victims? Secondly, does providing victims with more information and a safer means of contacting police change their likelihood of domestic abuse reporting... Read more...

Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

15 April 2024

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Gender gaps from labour market downturns

How quickly do men and women find work after mass lay-offs due to workplace closures? Research by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen reveals that women face a greater risk of unemployment than men and lose a larger share... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

20 February 2024

Journal article
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, Yasaman Saeidi and Neus Torres-Blas

01 February 2024

Journal article
Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories

Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of economics, especially among permanent faculty. As parenthood is an important driver of gender inequality in the labor market, we study the impact of children on the a... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

01 January 2024

Blog
Gender gaps from labour market shocks

Many workers will face unemployment at some point during their careers and research shows that job loss can lead to persistently lower earnings. But that research is chiefly about men. Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen ... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

01 October 2023

CEP discussion papers
Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcome... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

18 September 2023

Journal article
Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcome... Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

26 May 2023

Journal article - forthcoming
Wait and see? Public opinion dynamics after terrorist attacks

We use the occurrence of the London bombings in July 7 2005 during the fieldwork period of the British Social Attitudes Survey to analyse the dynamics of public support for measures curbing core freedoms. We observe no c... Read more...

Mariaelisa Epifanio, Marco Giani and Ria Ivandic

29 August 2022

Blog
It is through excessive consumption of alcohol that football games trigger certain domestic abuse perpetrators

Reports of domestic abuse rise after football matches. Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres Blas find that binge drinking is the key factor, with alcohol-linked violence against live-in partners happening more oft... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas

17 March 2022

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Football, alcohol and domestic abuse

Reports of domestic abuse rise after football matches. Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas find that binge drinking is the key factor - with alcohol-linked violence against live-in partners happening more of... Read more...

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas

22 February 2022

Journal article - forthcoming
Does the number of candidates increase turnout? Causal evidence from two-round elections

A long-lasting question in comparative politics is whether the number of candidates/parties increases turnout. Existing observational studies on the topic find mixed results. We thus apply a regression discontinuity desi... Read more...

Damien Bol and Ria Ivandic

18 February 2022

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

Journal article
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, Sunetra Gupta, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

24 March 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 of the Centre 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 of the Centre 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 of the Centre 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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