We have written a Blog, a Policy Brief, and a full Report, which are all here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/economics/re...
By Ellen Greaves, Estelle Cantillon and Mariagrazia Cavallo and myself.
@mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social
@estellecantillon.bsky.social
@nuffieldfoundation.org
(4/4)
We propose a simple, feasible, cheap and effective change to admissions criteria through the School Admissions Code, moving us closer to the aim of the White Paper.
This will significantly reduce the gap in average effectiveness of school attended between poor and non-poor pupils.
(3/4)
Our current system means that we are a long way from the White Paper’s aspiration that: "Access to high performing local schools should not be dependent on … household income".
We show that places where geographic criteria are used to assign places have much more unequal allocation of places.
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Today is National Offer Day, when half a million pupils find out which secondary school they have been assigned to.
But the school admissions system in England is not fair; it perpetuates inequality.
Poorer pupils are less likely to access effective schools.
#EconSky #EduSky
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The Education White Paper aspires
“Access to high performing local schools should not be dependent on factors such as families’ household income or local house prices”
Great!
We have policy proposals and analysis that can help:
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
The Education White Paper aspires
“Access to high performing local schools should not be dependent on factors such as families’ household income or local house prices”
Great!
We have policy proposals and analysis that can help:
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Y’days Education White Paper aspires “Access to high performing local schools should not be dependent on factors such as families’ household income or local house prices”
Great!
We have policy proposals and analysis that can help:
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
🚨 We are hiring! 🚨
CEPEO is a really great place to work and you'll be contributing to 2 important projects.
This post-doc role involves engaging with practitioners and employers to ensure high-impact research!
For more info and to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK316/p...
We’re hiring @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social!
Come and join our team of researchers to work across two cool projects with really exciting, unique data.
This role involves engaging with practitioners and employers regularly for high impact research.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK316/p...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
BÆM💥5 days left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings!
🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi
👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides
⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås
👉 baem.info
Everything that Paddy and Ludger @woessmann.bsky.social say here is true. Jon was first and foremost a wonderful person. We never wrote a paper together, but he was my colleague for almost 20 years. I always enjoyed talking with him, and always learnt a lot. We need more people like Jon.
Extremely saddened to learn about the passing of Jon Temple. He was a leading thinker on the economics of growth, and such a decent person.
Here’s a few fond memories of our interactions, for which I’ll always be profoundly grateful:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
R.I.P., dear Jon.
I am going to try and say a few words about Jon, who was one of the most influential people in my life, and an extraordinary person (very short thread below)
🚀 Postdoc in School Choice & Admissions
Join our research team at Uni Copenhagen with @gandil.bsky.social, Neilson & Oosterbeek. Work with unique high-resolution admissions data, long-run outcomes, and a large-scale field experiment.
📅 Apply by Feb 8
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us!
🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi
👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides
⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås
👉 baem.info
One of the side projects I've been involved in over the last few years is the Centre for Education Systems - doing big comparative reviews of 14 systems around the world.
We've now published our first three reports on curriculum, accountability and SEND.
www.ces.partners/copy-of-latest
The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
Great to see the brilliant work from the education researchers at @theifs.bsky.social recognised in this way.
Absolutely delighted our research has won the ONS' Research Excellence prize for impact!
I always say to people that the ideal @theifs.bsky.social work is rigorous enough to publish in top journals, and relevant enough to be on the front page. I think we've ticked that box here!
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
Heartening to see this level of intellectual ambition & breadth in the new 'London Consensus' agenda set out by Tim Besley & many colleagues at the LSE (& beyond).
www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
NEW POST: What difference will the proposed changes to Attainment 8 and Progress 8 make?
The proposed new method of calculating Attainment 8 will not affect schools' Progress 8 scores greatly but will shift the incentives to enter particular subjects.
vist.ly/4esnb
Behavioral, social and health scientists: if you’d like to combine social and genetic data, this is for you: shorturl.at/8gUcu. This course in London features all aspects from data collection to model estimation in our local cohort data - and the incredible @timtmorris.bsky.social as instructor.
🆕 Report ‘Modifying school choice for more equitable access in England’
Pupils from affluent households are more likely to gain a place at a top 2ry school.
✍️ @profsimonb.bsky.social @estellecantillon.bsky.social @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social & E. Greaves.
ℹ️ www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
New @nberpubs: "The Economic Impact of Brexit" www.nber.org/papers/w34459
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
Congratulations!!
Hope you treat it like a sports trophy and raise it above your head shouting your team.
