Jake Anders

@jakeanders.uk

1.7K followers 540 following 160 posts

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

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Political science 16%

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 5d

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...

EconPapers: Should we abolish GCSEs?

By Gill Wyness; Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting disruption to schooling led to the Government cancelling GCSE and A level exams in

econpapers.repec.org

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 5d

Cheers!

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Jake Anders

Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The rise in teenagers skipping school across English-speaking countries following the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from PISA - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability

Many countries are grappling with the long shadow that COVID has cast over their education systems, including dramatic increases in absence from school. This paper presents new insights into this issu...

link.springer.com

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 5d

I will be there about 10:30 and am happy to go into the lost property if this is an offer that is of use.

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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 5d

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....

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Carla Haelermans, Rense Corten , and 1 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Carla Haelermans, Rense Corten, Jake Anders

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 6d

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...

Altered courses - The Sutton Trust

An updated look at the impact of the COVID pandemic and cost-of-living crisis on young people.

www.suttontrust.com

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 8d

Oh, and Calpol plugins to help them still sleep under the circumstances.

www.calpol.co.uk/our-products...

www.calpol.co.uk

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 8d

It will pass (he says, in the middle of it again, due to the eldest starting school).

The alternative is, of course, the COVID lockdown. Our eldest had no colds for about the first eleven months of her life due to all that!

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 9d

My daughter has also tried this, along with signs informing her little sister how to use chairs, and forbidding our dog from going upstairs (which work in a correlation but not causation way, in that he doesn’t go upstairs anyway)

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Daily Spurious Correlation 🤖 @dailycorrelation.bsky.social · 10d

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

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 13d

How else will it get done?

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Todd Pugatch, Jake Anders

Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 16d

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.

Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · 21d

TODAY on the Economics Observatory – What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing?
By @jakeanders.uk

What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing? - Economics Observatory

The social restrictions and disrupted educational experiences resulting from Covid-19 have had a negative impact on many young people’s mental health. The damage to wellbeing has been more persistent…

buff.ly

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Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · 21d

TODAY on the Economics Observatory – What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing?
By @jakeanders.uk

What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing? - Economics Observatory

buff.ly

Reposted by Benjamin Braun, Ingo Rohlfing, Jake Anders

Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 26d

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?

Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown

We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...

github.com

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Oct 10

Come and join our busy, fun and friendly team!

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Oct 10

📢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!

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Laura K. Taylor, Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Oct 10

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Oct 8

Claude?

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 26

My daughter will be delighted.

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Sep 24

🌞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...

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 18

Rudely interjecting, but I feel I should say welcome.

And, yes, use Zotero.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 8

For the record, I still haven’t done this.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 8

Almost always do this at renewal to avoid upward creep in the premium. Basically, as long as they don’t have any ongoing conditions it’s worth seriously considering.

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 5

Not the point I know, but I always find it particularly grating that they could also be more concise themselves by using “concision” instead of the ponderous “conciseness”.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Sep 1

It's always worth doing that.

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven N. Durlauf, Dave O’Brien , and 25 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven N. Durlauf, Dave O’Brien, Michael A. Clemens, Mark J. Brandt, Lorraine Dearden, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Cyrus Samii, Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Sear, Valerie Mueller, Adam Gamoran, Melanie C. Green, Max Nathan, Julia Lynch, Miguel Á. Malo, Maria Abreu, Rachel S. Franklin, David Bartram, Marco Albertini, Rense Corten, Jill A. Jacobson, Stefanie Mollborn, Jon Dean, Alexandra Cirone, Jake Anders, Evan Roberts, David Darmofal

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Reposted by Jo Barraket, Martin Kreidl, Patrick Präg , and 1 more Jo Barraket, Martin Kreidl, Patrick Präg, Jake Anders

Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨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 ❤️!

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