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Considering using Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) data in your research? Seems daunting?

CEPEO, funded by @adr-uk.bsky.social, are working with DfE to help!

Presenting a synthetic version of LEO to download & explore today: datacatalogue.ukdataservice.ac.uk/studies/stud...

Still time to register and join me for an introduction to some of the practicalities of doing youth transitions research using administrative data tomorrow lunchtime

Registration link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.

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

📢📢 interested in doing research on youth transitions using adminstrative data? 📢📢

join our very own @jakeanders.uk who will be giving a practical introduction to exactly that next tuesday (14/04) online

sign up for the webinar here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@adruk.bsky.social community catalyst

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The British Academy/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 mont...

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June.

We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

The government has announced a cap of 6% interest on plan 2 and 3 student loan interest ahead of the publication of the March RPI inflation figure, which is used to set interest rates for the following academic year. Who will benefit? [1/5]

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Stratified scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout Abstract. While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social strat

New in @europeansocreview.bsky.social with brilliant @kostermann.bsky.social & @patzinaalex.bsky.social 🌟

Apprenticeship dropout is known to be associated with €€€ penalties, but less clear whether dropout causes later income losses. Matters for policy: what should interventions target?

Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

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The long-awaited Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving,” arrived yesterday with lots to digest.

At the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities, we study how policy can reduce inequality and improve life chances.

Here are 5 takeaways from CEPEO 👇

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized]
#rstats

Me: [Selecting the button it presents me with] Sure, go ahead and access my calendar.
Copilot: I’m ready to help — but I need to let you know one important thing: I can’t actually access your Outlook calendar directly.

What a timewaster Microsoft 365 Copilot is (a 2 act play, edited for brevity).

Me: Could you help me set up a scheduling poll?
Copilot: Just let me know your availability!
Me: Can you see my calendar?
Copilot: I can definitely read your calendar and do this automatically — if you grant permission.

📣A journal article from the COSMO Study's @jakeanders.uk and @ericaholtwhite.bsky.social has been published in Social Indicators Research!

The article uses COSMO data to highlight inequalities in young people’s subjective wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the pandemic 🧵

It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

I’ve tried a few ways of querying Zotero from LLM and agree this MCP is the best at present.

Investigating the relationship between educational inequity and teacher participation in professional development: A cross-national and quasi-experimental approach using TIMSS - Educational Assessment... The relationship between improving teaching through professional development (PD) and promoting educational equality remains under-researched. This study addresses this gap using a cross-national and ...

Where in the world does typical teacher professional development address educational inequity? Out now w/ Nils Kirsten and Jan-Eric Gustafsson!
And since Bluesky seems to like econometrics, the #OA study uses a within-student-between-subject approach :)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After the pandemic: a generation-defining challenge The COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study is the largest study of its kind into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost of...

I contributed a chapter co-authored with @carlcullinane.bsky.social & @beckymontacute.bsky.social and drawing on the work of the whole cosmostudy.uk team @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social & @suttontrust.bsky.social summarising our findings on the unequal impacts of the pandemic.

Book cover of "Global Perspectives on Recovery from Learning Disruption: Educational Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic"

Great new book out edited by @mcazaola.bsky.social on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on education, focusing on learning disruption and recovery from that disruption.

www.bloomsbury.com/9781350520523

Young People’s Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England - Social Indicators Research The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in soc...

You can read the full results from this paper now that they have, indeed, forthcome (open access for all to see!) in Social Indicators Research here:

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

And if you want even more, you can see all the analysis code behind the paper on this Github respository (github.com/jakeanders/c...) and obtain all the data for your own work from @ukdataservice.bsky.social (datacatalogue.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/serie...).

Young People’s Subjective Wellbeing in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Representative Cohort Study in England - Social Indicators Research The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in soc...

You can read the full results from this paper now that they have, indeed, forthcome (open access for all to see!) in Social Indicators Research here:

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

I’m basically imagining this is going to be stitched together into a training montage at the start of a co-presented Travelling Turtle video in 18 years time.

We are pleased to announce the first Economic Opportunity in Europe Conference, co-organized by @oppinsights.bsky.social, Sciences Po and @labdeoportunidades.bsky.social

Paris, France | Jun 15–16, 2026 | Keynote: Raj Chetty
Sub deadline: March 1

🔗More Info: opportunityinsights.org/updates/econ...

How ADR England’s Community Catalysts can help shape your fellowship proposal If you’re planning to apply for our funding opportunity for ADR UK Research Fellowships, you might be looking for ways to make your proposal impactful. Karen...

Interested in applying for a research fellowship using admin datasets, like the National Pupil Database and LEO? Have a look at this blog for some guidance on how to shape your proposal.

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Today, we celebrate the 80th year of the @um-src.bsky.social at ISR by launching a new web panel starting Fall 2026. It is called M-Panel and will be collecting a national sample representative of the U.S.

The Long-Run Effects of Consequential School Accountability | Journal of Labor Economics: Vol 44, No 1 The rise of accountability programs was perhaps the most noticeable change in American education during the 1990s and early 2000s. We measure how these programs affected students’ long-run outcomes. W...

School accountability (in the US) had positive effects on various attainments, with little evidence for teaching to the test, economists find. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Highlighting some of our findings from COSMO Wave 2 — which you can download and use for your analysis from @ukdataservice.bsky.social