Jake Anders
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Jake Anders
@jakeanders.uk

Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk

Education 46%
Political science 16%

I’ve tried a few ways of querying Zotero from LLM and agree this MCP is the best at present.

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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...
Investigating the relationship between educational inequity and teacher participation in professional development: A cross-national and quasi-experimental approach using TIMSS - Educational Assessment...
The relationship between improving teaching through professional development (PD) and promoting educational equality remains under-researched. This study addresses this gap using a cross-national and ...
link.springer.com

I contributed a chapter co-authored with @carlcullinane.bsky.social & @beckymontacute.bsky.social and drawing on the work of the whole cosmostudy.uk team @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social & @suttontrust.bsky.social summarising our findings on the unequal impacts of the pandemic.
After the pandemic: a generation-defining challenge
The COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study is the largest study of its kind into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost of...
cosmostudy.uk

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

And if you want even more, you can see all the analysis code behind the paper on this Github respository (github.com/jakeanders/c...) and obtain all the data for your own work from @ukdataservice.bsky.social (datacatalogue.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/serie...).
GitHub - jakeanders/cosmo-wellbeing: Young people’s subjective wellbeing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a representative cohort study in England
Young people’s subjective wellbeing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a representative cohort study in England - jakeanders/cosmo-wellbeing
github.com

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...
Young People’s Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England - Social Indicators Research
The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in soc...
link.springer.com

I’m basically imagining this is going to be stitched together into a training montage at the start of a co-presented Travelling Turtle video in 18 years time.

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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.

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How ADR England’s Community Catalysts can help shape your fellowship proposal
If you’re planning to apply for our funding opportunity for ADR UK Research Fellowships, you might be looking for ways to make your proposal impactful. Karen...
www.adruk.org
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.

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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...
The Long-Run Effects of Consequential School Accountability | Journal of Labor Economics: Vol 44, No 1
The rise of accountability programs was perhaps the most noticeable change in American education during the 1990s and early 2000s. We measure how these programs affected students’ long-run outcomes. W...
www.journals.uchicago.edu

Highlighting some of our findings from COSMO Wave 2 — which you can download and use for your analysis from @ukdataservice.bsky.social
🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

Professor Jake Anders, Principle Investigator if the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study shares insights and opportunities from the study's second wave of data collection in the newest Data Impact blog.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cosmo-wave-2/

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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
Tracking young people’s recovery and resilience post-pandemic: COSMO Wave 2 – Data Impact blog
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk

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🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉

Professor Jake Anders, Principle Investigator if the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study shares insights and opportunities from the study's second wave of data collection in the newest Data Impact blog.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/cosmo-wave-2/

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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...

Good lord, you’ve done wonders on getting a sleep rhythm going there! Here’s our youngest’s Huckleberry map from a comparable point…

I have been predicting that for some time now.

Dog*

* Terms & conditions apply.

Might work for you/yours. Might be a colossal waste of cash. I think there is no way to predict in advance.

I’ll see what I can do!

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!
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...
Using UCAS data to understand higher education transitions
Join us in person at the Department for Education in London to learn more about using UCAS data to better understand youth transitions
www.eventbrite.co.uk

Congratulations! May she bring you both ever so much joy

Does this make you a NIMBY, Alex?

You never know what they might get up to by themselves.

Never leave your UKDS datasets unattended!

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!


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All the very best!

This was my thinking exactly. I could imagine it being a useful first pass (probably not final pass, as humans are still delightfully weird in survey response) test for problems with your survey design. So why on earth pitch it as this nonsense?!

Not on my watch — I am doubling down on em-dash use.
Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.

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Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.

This is just madness
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"