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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

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Mar 6

📢 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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 4h

Come and join our wonderful team and help support the important work we do. Hybrid working options too

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 4h

📢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

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 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...

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Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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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

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 3d

📢 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

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 11d

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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 12d

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

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 21d

Crikey

Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 21d

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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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 21d

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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 28d

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

Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 28d

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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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 28d

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

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...

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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · Mar 6

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

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Mar 6

🔸 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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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · Mar 6

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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Mar 11

📣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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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Mar 25

🎉 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...

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Zach Bleemer @zbleemer.bsky.social · May 19

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.

What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.

🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

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

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Clémentine Van Effenterre @clemvaneff.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ok I promised myself I’d do it:

Dear conference organizers,
Please plan a lactation room at the conference venue.
And indicate it on the program.
Thank you 🙏🏼

It’s awkward to have to ask.
It’s awkward to pump in a random office where everyone can enter.
It’s awkward for everybody involved.

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Jul 9

⌛Just 24hrs until our annual lecture with @chloergibbs.bsky.social and it couldn't be more topical!

With the Best Start in Life strategy released this week, join us to learn about making smart investments in early childhood.

🕕6pm tomorrow, Central Hall Westminster

Register: tinyurl.com/bdh3jcky

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Jul 14

Professor Claire Crawford introduces our in-person NPD training for @adruk2025.bsky.social this morning using new synthetic administrative data - very exciting new development for us. Today’s course is using STATA & next week will be R (fully booked!). Sign up to our mail list for further courses

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Jul 17

New stats out today from DfE give us our first comprehensive look at take-up of the new early education entitlements. Very interesting reading, including a potentially concerning fall in take-up for disadvantaged 2-yr-olds. We've been doing some digging and will have more to say over next few days.

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · Jul 27

Omg

$BBc Sport liveblog reporting Lucy Bronze has played the entire Euros with a fractured tibia$

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