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Lindsey Macmillan
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Professor of Economics. Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social). Economics of education. Inequality. Research Fellow at the IFS, IZA and CESifo. 1st gen🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴� .. more

Political science 29%
Sociology 26%
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📢 New report out today! 📢

➡️ Access the report here: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...

📊 What did we find?

🔸 Most of the socio-economic background (SEB) and ethnic inequalities in entry to professional occupations are driven by employer-side decisions made during the recruitment process

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4/5 | Improving outcomes for children and young people

Join @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, Julia Ellingwood, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and fellow researchers if your work is interested in improving the life chances of children & young people, locally and globally

➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...

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Our project, EduGap, is one of the funded projects. Myself, Jon Marius Iversen (CI), @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @gillwyness.bsky.social, and Richard Murphy (UT-Austin) will look at the effects of assessment forms on student outcomes in Norway and England.

www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2025...
193 millionar kroner til forsking for å styrkje utdanningssektoren.
Forskingsrådet støttar no 17 forskingsprosjekt for politikkutforming, forvaltning og praksisfelt innan utdanning, læring og kompetanseutvikling. Prosjekta vil bidra til å styrkje kunnskapsgrunnlaget f...
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CEPEO welcomes the announcements from this week’s education and skills white paper of index-linking tuition fees and maintenance loans, as well as the return of some non-repayable maintenance grants for disadvantaged students. [1/7] 🧵

👀 Important new project led by one of our Senior Research Fellows and funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org

Paul will be looking at changes in student employment and how this helps or hinders their life chances.

Congratulations Paul, we’re looking forward to learning more from this work
Very excited to announce that from January I will be leading a new research project funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, using LEO data to investigate the consequences of student employment, whether positive or negative.

My new blog for @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social provides an overview:
bit.ly/4n7KO1f

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Very excited to announce that from January I will be leading a new research project funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org, using LEO data to investigate the consequences of student employment, whether positive or negative.

My new blog for @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social provides an overview:
bit.ly/4n7KO1f

📈 We find evidence of discontinuities in favour of female students & against those on Free-School Meals

🎓We show that these biases have consequences for university outcomes

🎙️ Governments' considering increasing reliance on subjective assessments should take steps to mitigate this bias
📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

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Come and join our wonderful team and help support the important work we do. Hybrid working options too
📢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).
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📢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
🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

A 🧵 1/6
Jo Blanden (CEP), @GillWyness.bsky.social (CEP), @Opmc1.bsky.social (UCL) and @LindseyMacmillan.bsky.social could explain why private school pupils are more likely to end up in higher-ranked HE courses than peers with similar grades.

Read:
Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

Join us at 3.15pm, Grace suite 2, Hilton Hotel, @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs -

I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

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Join us this afternoon for a panel hosted by @suttontrust.bsky.social to hear new research on why the privately educated still dominate top jobs -

I'll be discussing a number of new @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social research papers on inequalities in access to top jobs econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

Looking forward to seeing people at various events and panel sessions!

Arriving in Liverpool:

Today 1.30-2.30pm @uclpolicylab.bsky.social panel 'A new age of work' - discussing youth LM

Tomorrow 3.15-4.30pm @suttontrust.bsky.social panel 'Elitist Britain' - discussing @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on access to professions

www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/e...
A new age of work: how Labour can seize the agenda on dignity at work
UCL Policy Lab panel at Labour Party Conference 2025 in partnership with Timewise
www.ucl.ac.uk

Crikey
One marker of a weakening labor market: there are now more job seekers than job openings in the US.

My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
One marker of a weakening labor market: there are now more job seekers than job openings in the US.

My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

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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
Essential @nuffieldfoundation.org funded note by @theifs.bsky.social on England's SEND system - highly topical this autumn. Here's the growth in the number of EHCPs over the last decade+.

ifs.org.uk/articles/eng...
Essential @nuffieldfoundation.org funded note by @theifs.bsky.social on England's SEND system - highly topical this autumn. Here's the growth in the number of EHCPs over the last decade+.

ifs.org.uk/articles/eng...

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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...
We must clear a path for young people outside full-time education
As GCSE results land, we should realise that training alongside decent work is a better next step for some 16-year-olds
www.ft.com

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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The thing to note here is that this is the gap in offer rates among employers who agreed to participate in this super-important research…

Those who are at least aware there may be issues and probably have policies and training in place
🔸 Even when comparing candidates who look similar on paper, lower SEB applicants are still 18% less likely to get an offer than those from professional backgrounds

🔸 Half of the gap in offer rates for low SEB applicants occur at the online stage while the other half occur at face-to-face stage

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UK employers less likely to progress working-class and ethnic-minority graduates through to final stages of hiring process, finds @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @clairetyler.bsky.social report for @nuffieldfoundation.org www.timeshighereducation.com/news/graduat... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Graduate recruiters ‘filter out’ poorer and minority applicants
UCL research potentially has significant implications for universities rated on post-study employment outcomes
www.timeshighereducation.com

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📣Another blog post I hear you ask? Yes! Here's today's with @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot:

🎤Testing, Testing – Why are Black applicants not getting graduate jobs?🎓💼

Black applicants are 45% less likely to get a graduate role than their white peers

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...
Testing, Testing – Why are Black applicants not getting graduate jobs? | UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO)
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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🎉 We’re delighted that Martin Wessel, one of the project advisors, will be joining us at @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social in October to start his PhD to continue this exciting work!

More about Martin here: www.bi.team/people/marti...