Emma Gorman

Principal Research Fellow | Centre for Employment Research | School of Organisations, Economy and Society | University of Westminster

Research interests/expertise: applied economics and statistics; population health; policy evaluation; causal inference.

Teaching: New Methods in Data Analysis for Business (co-module leader and lecturer, 2022/23 - present).

Affiliations: IZA, Institute of Labor Economics Research Fellow since 2019; GLO Fellow (Global Labor Organisation) since 2023.

Previous posts: Lancaster University (PhD Economics, 2014-2019), University of Glasgow (Research Fellow, 2012-2014), New Zealand Treasury (Analyst, 2010-2012), Victoria University of Wellington (BCA Economics, Econometrics, 2006-2011).

Contact details: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/gorman-emma

In-progress

New! Causal Inference in Comparative and International Education, with Kalyan Kameshwara, in: Thomas, M. A. M., jules, t. d., Schweisfurth, M., & Shields, R. (Eds.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury.

Children of the 1990s – extending understanding of social mobility in England and Wales - ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative grant (2025-2027) [extended due to my maternity leave] PI, with Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis & Min Zhang.

School peers’ ability and youth custody (with Richard Dorsett, Greta Morando, Veruska Oppedisano & Min Zhang)

Blogs and other writing

Around a million children in the UK are living in destitution – with harmful consequences for their development. The Conversation 2023.

What can we do about the diversity problem in Economics? Times Higher Education 2023, with Amrit Amirapu and Amanda Gosling (University of Kent).

The shift from grammar schools to comprehensives had little effect on social mobility in England. The Conversation 2023, with Franz Buscha.

Published papers and book chapters

Does schooling have lasting effects on cognitive function? Evidence from compulsory schooling laws Gorman, E. (2023) Demography.

Selective schooling and social mobility in England Buscha, F. , Gorman, E., and Sturgis, P. (2023). Labour Economics (slides compressed; slides )

(previously titled Selective schooling has not promoted social mobility in England IZA Discussion Paper No. 14640)
General interest article (Research Features, Issue 147)
The Conversation article
UCL Linking our Lives blog

Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales. Buscha, F., Gorman E., Sturgis P., & Zhang, M. (2023). Journal of Social Policy

earlier version: GLO Discussion Paper, No. 1222.

A national multiple baseline cohort study of mental health conditions in early adolescence and subsequent educational outcomes in New Zealand. Gorman, E., Bowden, N., Kokaua, J., McNeill, B., & Schluter, P. J. (2023). Nature - Scientific Reports

Research connects mental health and poor education outcomes as school counsellor shortage bites - Radio NZ

Selective schooling and returns to education. Gorman, E. (2022). In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham.

Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time. (2021). Buscha F., Gorman E., and Sturgis. British Journal of Sociology.

(working paper: "Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?" IZA Discussion Paper No. 13437 2020).
UCL Linking our Lives blog; podcast; video abstract

Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England. (2021). Gorman, E., & Walker, I. Economics of Education Review.

Adolescent school bullying victimisation and later life outcomes. (2021). Gorman E., Harmon, C., Mendolia, S., Staneva A and Walker, I. Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.

HCEO network blog

Survey representativeness / population health

Correcting for non-participation bias in health surveys using record-linkage, synthetic observations and pattern mixture modelling. (2019). Gray, L. , Gorman, E., White, I. R., Katikireddi, S. V., McCartney, G., Rutherford, L. and Leyland, A. H. Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

Validation of non-participation bias methodology based on record-linked Finnish register-based health survey data: a protocol paper. (2019). McMinn, M. A. , Martikainen, P., Gorman, E., Rissanen, H., Härkänen, T., Tolonen, H., Leyland, A. H. and Gray, L. BMJ Open.

Adjustment for survey non‐representativeness using record‐linkage: refined estimates of alcohol consumption by deprivation in Scotland. (2017). Gorman, E., Leyland, A. H., McCartney, G., Katikireddi, S. V., Rutherford, L., Graham, L., Robinson, M., & Gray, L. 2017. Addiction.

Assessing the representativeness of population-sampled health surveys through linkage to administrative data on alcohol-related outcomes. (2014) Gorman, E., Leyland, A.H., McCartney, G., White, I.R., Katikireddi, S.V., Rutherford, L., Graham, L., Gray, L. American Journal of Epidemiology. 180, 9, p. 941-948. 8 p.

Use of record-linkage to handle non-response and improve alcohol consumption estimates in health survey data: a study protocol. (2013). Gray, L., McCartney, G., White, I.R., Katikireddi, S.V., Rutherford, L., Gorman, E., Leyland, A.H. BMJ Open. 3, 3, 11 p.

Grant funding

Children of the 1990s – extending understanding of social mobility in England and Wales - ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative grant (2023-2025) PI, with Franz Buscha, Patrick Sturgis & Min Zhang.

Post-16 pathways to the labour market for lower attaining learners at Key Stage 4. Co-I, with Dave Thomson, Peter Urwin (PI), Alex Bowyer.

Nuffield Foundation. 2021 - 2023

Balanced schools – do they make a difference to social mobility? Co-I, with Ian Walker (PI), Silvia Mendolia, Mat Weldon.

Funder: Social Mobility Commission. 2019

Grant and policy reports

Youth custody: Educational influences and labour market consequences Dorsett, R., Bowyer, A., Gorman, E., Morando, G., Oppedisano, V., Zhang, M., Thomson, D., Cathro, C., Tagliaferri, G., Sutherland, A., Dickson, M., Machin, S., McNally, S. and Ruiz-Valenzuela, J. 2023.

Assessing factors that affect the labour market decisions of young people aged 16 to 24: Research informing LPC review of youth rates. Bowyer, A., Cerqua, A., Di Pietro, G., Gorman E., and Urwin P. Report to the Low Pay Commission November 2019.

The effect on household income of government taxation and expenditure in 1988, 1998, 2007 and 2010. Aziz O, Gibbons M, Ball C, Gorman E. Policy Quarterly 2012; 8:29-38

Measuring saving rates in New Zealand: an update. Gorman E., Scobie G.M., Paek Y. New Zealand Treasury Working Paper Series 13/04, Wellington, 2013

Health and retirement of older New Zealanders. Gorman E., Scobie G.M., Towers A. New Zealand Treasury Working Paper Series 12/02, Wellington, 2012