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Richard Dorsett
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Professor of Economic Evaluation, University of Westminster
Economics - labour, education, crime.
Causal inference.
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jul 26
It’s been great to work with @randeurope.org and @fftedudatalab.bsky.social on this evaluation
randeurope.org RAND Europe @randeurope.org · Jul 25
Our recent evaluation of the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce pilot, funded by Youth Endowment Fund, in collaboration‬ with FFT Datalab & University of Westminster, found that the pilot helped improving children’s attendance.
Full report by YEF: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/eval...
Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce | Youth Endowment Fund
Providing specialist support to alternative provision schools to improve their skills and capabilities
youthendowmentfund.org.uk

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RAND Europe @randeurope.org · Jul 25
Our recent evaluation of the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce pilot, funded by Youth Endowment Fund, in collaboration‬ with FFT Datalab & University of Westminster, found that the pilot helped improving children’s attendance.
Full report by YEF: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/eval...
Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce | Youth Endowment Fund
Providing specialist support to alternative provision schools to improve their skills and capabilities
youthendowmentfund.org.uk

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youthendowmentfund.org.uk
Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · Jul 25
Learn more about the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce - youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/eval...
Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce | Youth Endowment Fund
Providing specialist support to alternative provision schools to improve their skills and capabilities
youthendowmentfund.org.uk

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Mar 27
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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · Feb 2
Very nice use of data linkage with astonishing results

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Estimated cumulative incidence of intervention by children's social care services to age 18: a whole-of-England administrative data cohort study using the child in need census | Internationa...
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 31
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 30
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 30
Research Fellow opportunity at the University of Westminster for someone interested in applying their quant/code/data skills to employment/social policy projects - apply by 25 Feb
vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...
HR Vacancies - Search Jobs University of Westminster
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 28
Petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 16
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Jan 7
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Dec 1
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 28
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 22
Nice to meeet you

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 21
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 21
More generally, there’s a lot more use that could and should be made of admin data. For a consideration (using RTI microdata) see escoe-website.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 21
This doesn’t detract from the main point of the @resfoundation.bsky.social paper but does highlight differences by data source that existed even before 2020.

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 21
Really interesting analysis - policymakers need accurate information and admin data offers obvious advantages (and disadvantages).
Surprised by Fig 2 though, since graphing published series of *employee* jobs (below) shows more employees under the RTI definition than with LFS.

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 20
Thanks, just done that. Nice tip

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 18
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Nov 13
Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends:

• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots

• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus

• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · Nov 9
Finally relocating and looking for people to follow. Main interests are in labour supply and the school-to-work transition. Methods too - randomised trials, quasi experiments, survival analysis - and data. More recently, self-employment and using machine learning for heterogeneous effects.