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I regularly come back to this graph when talking to people about how we’re in a really different world now. And important to note that these are for EHCP only. There will be many more young people with SEND for these conditions, but no EHCP

We have an exceptional seminar on Thursday this week at 11am, with Dr Julie Cohen of University of Virginia: "Experimental evidence on modularising context in teacher education" Sign up now: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We should not accept 1 in 8 of our 16-24 year olds shut out of learning or earning. Dreadful for young people, economy & society. Purposeful government can make a difference - but it will require learning lessons, real focus & new resource. Me in the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/97da...

Signed up for @appam.bsky.social 2025 in Seattle - who’s in? @joshua-goodman.com @dynarski.bsky.social @chloergibbs.bsky.social?? @gillwyness.bsky.social

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades. But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

This looks potentially useful for junior scholars. "The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Did I mention that I love Lucy? 💪💪💪

What a journey! It’s not even about the win, although 😭. It’s my girl (who hates football) putting on a kit and playing with a ball all week. And my boys cheering on the team more than they even do the mens. These girls are changing the world and I am delighted to watch the influence they have 🦁🦁🦁

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At @britishacademy.bsky.social this morning for the launch of an important @nuffieldfoundation.org report on Raising of the Participation age to 18 by @mattdickson.bsky.social & colleagues. This is a vital contribution of high quality evidence to an important policy area @uniofbathipr.bsky.social

Omg. Breathe 🦁🦁🦁

As promised, some further analysis: LAs that have experienced larger falls in take-up relative to what might have been expected tend to have higher female employment rates and lower unemployment rates… perhaps indicating.. more competition for places blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

I love maths and Lucy

Most stressful penalty shoot out in ages! Got there in the end ❤️💃🏼🙋🏻‍♀️💪🦁🦁🦁

The 10ppt drop in disadvantaged 2 year old take up in the past year is really worrying for the Opportunities Mission goals - though there is caution urged around those headline numbers. Our CEPEO Early Years lead, Prof Claire Crawford, is looking into what might be going on. Watch this space 👀

Inspired by today’s conference launching the Civil Society covenant - the most important way to tackle the huge number of issues we currently face is through localised partnerships between government and civil society, leveraging the impact economy. The energy in the room was palpable

The stark difference in demand for the STATA vs R courses reminding me that I am now a 🦕 🦖

Thanks so much @chloergibbs.bsky.social for giving our @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social Annual Lecture yesterday. Timely, rigorous, engaging, and beautifully delivered. The packed audience couldn’t speak highly enough about it afterwards. Thanks also for spending the day at CEPEO HQ and all the great chats

It's today! If you haven't yet got plans this evening, join us to hear about "Making smart investments in early childhood" Chloe served as an advisor to President Biden on his Council of Economic Advisors, working on childcare reform. This is a really timely talk @chloergibbs.bsky.social

Great to see @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research and policy priorities informing the new Best Start in Life strategy: 🏠Best Start Family Hubs in disadvantaged areas 🚸Renewed focus on inclusive early years provision/funding 🔢Importance of early maths skills 💷Consultation on complex funding system

👇👏 why do women still have to ask for this?

Young adults remain a key group The proportion of young adults (aged 16 to 24), with a common mental health condition, rose from 17.5% in 2007 to 25.8% in 2023/4 There's an urgent need to better understand the drivers of this increase in prevalence digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

4 Professors celebrating! Congratulations to our @nikkishure.bsky.social on becoming a Full Professor ❤️

Congratulations to our @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social and family on the safe arrival of their baby She’ll be the envy of all her baby pals with her very own @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social vest Welcome to the CEPEO crew, baby Annie

Read the full report here: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo... And our blog post on our new findings here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

🎙️NEW FINDINGS🎙️ Updated analysis from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on shows that inequalities by socio-economic background have *increased* over time for the latest year of recruitment as competition for graduate jobs have increased repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...

“Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests” w/ Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social ‪& Pietro Sancassani Decisions to invest in human capital depend on time preferences ➡️ New perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities 2/9

One month until the famous @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social annual lecture - join us again at Central Hall, Westminster for our policy-focused lecture from Prof. Chloe Gibbs. Chloe will be talking about early years education policy, which is particularly topical! As usual there will be a reception after

"In a geopolitically uncertain world and after more than a decade of low productivity growth, the UK needs to rethink its economic strategy." Today, we're publishing a collection of expert policy insights ahead of the multi-year Spending Review conclusion: buff.ly/DAlcNo5

Our Annual Lecture with Professor Chloe Gibbs is getting closer! Sign up now for the event on the evening of 10 July, discussing making smart investments in early childhood education: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

The role of subject choices in this is both fascinating and depressing - really interesting new work on the college wage premium over time

Home from another great conference with high quality papers and lots of fun. Thanks to @davidajaeger.bsky.social for doing all the hard work to organise. Exciting in particular to meet some really excellent grad students. Can’t wait to see more from them #FourSaNE

Want to know more about the evidence underpinning the government's focus on equality of opportunity via its Opportunities Mission? Read the latest @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social briefing from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @laouthwaite.bsky.social econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

In case we don’t make it back, we climbed a mountain in Crieff to see the sunset @emmatominey.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social @opmc1.bsky.social @davidajaeger.bsky.social @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social #FourSaNE

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics: 👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings @annualreviews.bsky.social 1/9

Incredible findings on impact of LEZ & ULEZ ⬇️ significantly reduced PM10 & NO2 levels ⬇️ sick leave reduced by 18.5% ⬆️ improved general health ⬇️ reduced incidence of long-term health conditions and respiratory issues ⬆️ mental well-being & happiness 💷 est. savings exceeding £37 million per year

Easter holidays productivity nose dive

Presenting our new @nuffieldfoundation.org work on inequalities in applications and offers to professional occupations

Closing out a great day 1 at #SES25. Join us at 9am tomorrow in the main theatre for our session on inequalities in access to occupations @scoteconsociety.bsky.social #econsky 📈📉

First up, keynote from Rachel Griffith on the gender pay gap amongst high educated workers #SES2025 #econsky 📈📉

We’re here in sunny stunning Glasgow for our Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference - follow us on Bluesky now we’ve left the other place @scoteconsociety.bsky.social #econsky 📈📉

The Adam Smith tartan is packed - heading home to Glasgow for Scottish Economic Society conference 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SES2025 #econsky 📈📉 Come and see our session on inequalities in access to occupations at 9am Tuesday funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org and @ukri.org @gillwyness.bsky.social @opmc1.bsky.social

Wonderfully engaging audience with tons of questions. Thanks @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

This lunchtime

Last week, @iza.org World of Labor published our policy article on hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups. In this article, we summarise insights from meta-research on the issue.

I'm really looking forward to supervising Martin's PhD on social capital and social mobility in the coming years

Latest ITT statistics are somewhat positive, with most secondary subjects - especially shortage ones - recruiting better than last year. Primary down a smidge, English down due to bursary cut But majority still likely to be below target (this is last year's targets: new actuals out next month)