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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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴�

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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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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 2d

📢 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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Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 10d

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...

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 11d

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

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 11d

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

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 27d

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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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

❤️❤️❤️

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 27

Did I mention that I love Lucy? 💪💪💪

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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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 27

What a journey! It’s not even about the win, although 😭. It’s my girl (who hates football) putting on a kit and playing with a ball all week. And my boys cheering on the team more than they even do the mens. These girls are changing the world and I am delighted to watch the influence they have 🦁🦁🦁

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 27

Please no

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 23

At @britishacademy.bsky.social this morning for the launch of an important @nuffieldfoundation.org report on Raising of the Participation age to 18 by @mattdickson.bsky.social & colleagues. This is a vital contribution of high quality evidence to an important policy area @uniofbathipr.bsky.social

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 22

a woman is covering her mouth with a brown paper bag and the word trendisst is visible in the corner

ALT: a woman is covering her mouth with a brown paper bag and the word trendisst is visible in the corner

media.tenor.com

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 22

Me.too.

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 22

Omg. Breathe 🦁🦁🦁

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 22

As promised, some further analysis:

LAs that have experienced larger falls in take-up relative to what might have been expected tend to have higher female employment rates and lower unemployment rates… perhaps indicating.. more competition for places

blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 17

I love maths and Lucy

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Jul 17

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).

“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

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Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 17

Most stressful penalty shoot out in ages! Got there in the end ❤️💃🏼🙋🏻‍♀️💪🦁🦁🦁

Lindsey Macmillan @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social · Jul 17

The 10ppt drop in disadvantaged 2 year old take up in the past year is really worrying for the Opportunities Mission goals - though there is caution urged around those headline numbers. Our CEPEO Early Years lead, Prof Claire Crawford, is looking into what might be going on. Watch this space 👀

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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