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New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟 Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

The long-awaited Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving,” arrived yesterday with lots to digest. At the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities, we study how policy can reduce inequality and improve life chances. Here are 5 takeaways from CEPEO 👇

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized] #rstats

What a timewaster Microsoft 365 Copilot is (a 2 act play, edited for brevity). Me: Could you help me set up a scheduling poll? Copilot: Just let me know your availability! Me: Can you see my calendar? Copilot: I can definitely read your calendar and do this automatically — if you grant permission.

📣A journal article from the COSMO Study's @jakeanders.uk and @ericaholtwhite.bsky.social has been published in Social Indicators Research! The article uses COSMO data to highlight inequalities in young people’s subjective wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the pandemic 🧵

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Where in the world does typical teacher professional development address educational inequity? Out now w/ Nils Kirsten and Jan-Eric Gustafsson! And since Bluesky seems to like econometrics, the #OA study uses a within-student-between-subject approach :) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great new book out edited by @mcazaola.bsky.social on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on education, focusing on learning disruption and recovery from that disruption. www.bloomsbury.com/9781350520523

You can read the full results from this paper now that they have, indeed, forthcome (open access for all to see!) in Social Indicators Research here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are pleased to announce the first Economic Opportunity in Europe Conference, co-organized by @oppinsights.bsky.social, Sciences Po and @labdeoportunidades.bsky.social Paris, France | Jun 15–16, 2026 | Keynote: Raj Chetty Sub deadline: March 1 🔗More Info: opportunityinsights.org/updates/econ...

Interested in applying for a research fellowship using admin datasets, like the National Pupil Database and LEO? Have a look at this blog for some guidance on how to shape your proposal. vist.ly/4nvpw

Today, we celebrate the 80th year of the @um-src.bsky.social at ISR by launching a new web panel starting Fall 2026. It is called M-Panel and will be collecting a national sample representative of the U.S.

School accountability (in the US) had positive effects on various attainments, with little evidence for teaching to the test, economists find. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Highlighting some of our findings from COSMO Wave 2 — which you can download and use for your analysis from @ukdataservice.bsky.social

New post by @jakeanders.uk on @ukdsimpact.bsky.social highlights some things we've learned from Wave 2 of COSMO (our study with @clscohorts.bsky.social & @suttontrust.bsky.social). blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cosmo-wave-2/ You can download and use all the COSMO data from @ukdataservice.bsky.social

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Last call for this as a) it’s almost full and b) we have to send the list of attendees very early in the year so registration will close either way!

Great quiz! I didn’t do quite as well, with a couple of silly mistakes… I scored 65% on the Centre for British Progress Big British Progress Quiz of the Year! ⭐ 🟩 🟩🟥 🟥🟥🟩 🟩🟥🟧🟩 🟩🟩🟧 🪵 quizzes.britishprogress.org/quiz/christm...

Not on my watch — I am doubling down on em-dash use.

This is just madness

On Bondi Beach today: the belongings of people who ran away in the chaos of yesterday’s shooting, in case they come back to claim them Including tiny shoes and toys of the kids

🎄 CEPEO Xmas Seminar 🎄 Human Capital Spillovers in the United Kingdom 🗣️ Dr Fabien Petit (University of Barcelona) 📍 Room G06A, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP 🗓️ Thursday 11 December ⏰ 2 pm (UK time) 🔗 Register here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CEPEOSeminarSeries

Want to know more about using UCAS data to research transitions to HE (and delay the return to your desk in Jan!)? Join us in person at the Department for Education in London for a research showcase with @adruk.bsky.social 🕕Tues 6th Jan, 10.30am-4pm Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977270535...

The ONS research excellence awards took place yesterday. @jakeanders.uk co-authored work on the impact of free schools which won the People's Choice Award and Claire Crawford worked with @theifs.bsky.social on the Sure Start evaluation which won the Impact of Analysis Award. Congratulations!

We’re recruiting an Evaluation Officer (12-month maternity cover) to support our work in building strong evidence on what improves widening participation & student success. Salary: £37,474 App deadline: 8 December 2025, 09:00 GMT Find out more and apply: taso.org.uk/vacancy/eval...

Join and help to lead the Constitution Unit! @uclspp.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics who will also join our senior team and contribute to our research and impact activities. Applicants must have, or be near to finishing, a PhD. Apply 👇

Why do people choose to become teachers? Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

The government's opportunity mission set the goal of reaching 75% of children having a good level of development when starting school by 2028. It's good to see this has now reached 68.3%, up 0.6%pts from last year, but still a way to go.

There's still time to register for this week's CEPEO seminar! We are hosting Dr Judith Delaney from University of Bath who will presenting work on the effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes REGISTER NOW: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CEPEO is launching a new Master's programme with @sriucl.bsky.social — this will support students to understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges in education policy & educational inequalities. Applications now open for Oct 2026 start. Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Pleased to have contributed to a chapter in this book looking at what we can learn from the EEF’s existing education trials about promising interventions for children with experience of social care: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Available now: Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care, edited by Michael Sanders, David Westlake, and Vanessa Hirneis Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Explore the application of controlled trials to children's social care and protection.

Moral: Be careful what you ask for.

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

We broadly welcome the recommendations of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, in particular citing CEPEO’s briefing note on the value of GCSEs (econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...) and...

Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are in the UCL /Euston area & you have a calculator that I can borrow this morning, please get in touch urgently!!! I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died! Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one. Oh my life....

How have the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis affected the course of young people's lives? New @suttontrust.bsky.social qualitative research of the COSMO cohort highlights those Altered Courses of young people's lives: www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Popularity of the first name Christopher correlates with Burglaries in Oklahoma (r=0.966)

Empirical evidence and conceptual reasoning suggest quasi-experimental studies—the most common form of studies making causal claims—have a "p-hacking" problem. My essay on this and the case for adapting & adopting QED preregistration is now published in Evaluation Review. doi.org/10.1177/0193...

What are the post-pandemic inequalities in wellbeing? And are pandemic events still casting a shadow for some young people? Reporting results that are now forthcoming in a journal article for Social Indicators Research.

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

Come and join our busy, fun and friendly team!

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢 We're looking for a centre administrator to join our fantastic team! Role is for 3 days a week, with flexible hybrid working options. Interest in @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social's mission a bonus. 🕕Apply by 23.59 on 24th October 2025 Full details: tinyurl.com/5t586vuj Please share widely!

🌞Another day, another @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper 🌚 Our PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social examines a recent major reform to the UK education system: the introduction of T levels - a qualification that aims to blend the academic and vocational econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

We have more of our online courses on using administrative data, supported by ADR UK, coming up soon. ➡ National Pupil Database (NPD) 23-24 Sept www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru... ➡ Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) 30 Sep - 1 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...