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Jake Anders
@jakeanders.uk
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Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 19h
Seconded.

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 1d
Why do people choose to become teachers?

Rigorous new evidence on this vital question for our education system in a new CEPEO working paper out today by @drsamsims.bsky.social & @clareroutledge.bsky.social

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
EconPapers: Understanding the decision (not) to become a teacher: evidence from survey experiments with undergraduates in the UK and US
By Sam Sims and Clare Routledge; Abstract: Teacher shortages are widespread, yet the reasons people choose (not) to enter the profession remain poorly understood.
econpapers.repec.org

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 1d
The government's opportunity mission set the goal of reaching 75% of children having a good level of development when starting school by 2028.

It's good to see this has now reached 68.3%, up 0.6%pts from last year, but still a way to go.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 4d
Damn right, it’s a bad approach to fiscal policy.
I can teach you, but I have to charge.

Reposted by Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 5d
There's still time to register for this week's CEPEO seminar!

We are hosting Dr Judith Delaney from University of Bath who will presenting work on the effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes

REGISTER NOW: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
UCL CEPEO Autumn Seminar Series 2025 The effect of university grade inflation on graduate outcomes Dr Judith Delaney (University of Bath) Thursday 27th November 2025, 3pm (UK Time) #CEPEOSeminarSeries

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 8d
I’ve made a note. Nothing imminent I’m afraid, but it’s not forgotten!

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 8d
This study is only a single cohort, so can’t do so with this on its own (but have ways to look within-cohort based on school-level variation in disruption). But we’ve tried to be very similar to the Millennium Cohort Study (few years older; finished pre-pandemic) for exactly that reason.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 8d
We’re working on it… cosmostudy.uk

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 8d
CEPEO is launching a new Master's programme with @sriucl.bsky.social — this will support students to understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges in education policy & educational inequalities.

Applications now open for Oct 2026 start.

Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
Social Policy (Quantitative Education Analysis) MSc
The Social Policy (Quantitative Education Analysis) MSc is designed to help students understand and conduct rigorous research addressing challenges relating to education policy and educational inequalities in a wide variety of professional contexts. The relationship between robust research and evidence-based policy is a key course theme.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 9d
More than tolerable!

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 11d
Pleased to have contributed to a chapter in this book looking at what we can learn from the EEF’s existing education trials about promising interventions for children with experience of social care: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Reposted by Jake Anders

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 11d
Available now: Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care, edited by Michael Sanders, David Westlake, and Vanessa Hirneis

Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Explore the application of controlled trials to children's social care and protection.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Jake Anders, José Pina-Sánchez

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13d
Moral: Be careful what you ask for.

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 17d
Genuinely know there is someone who fits this description in the DfE.

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 23d
We broadly welcome the recommendations of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, in particular citing CEPEO’s briefing note on the value of GCSEs (econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...) and...
EconPapers: Should we abolish GCSEs?
By Gill Wyness; Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting disruption to schooling led to the Government cancelling GCSE and A level exams in
econpapers.repec.org

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 23d
Cheers!

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Jake Anders

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 23d
Interesting comparative study of attendance patterns in OECD countries pre vs. post pandemic by @jakeanders.uk and colleagues!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The rise in teenagers skipping school across English-speaking countries following the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from PISA - Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
Many countries are grappling with the long shadow that COVID has cast over their education systems, including dramatic increases in absence from school. This paper presents new insights into this issu...
link.springer.com

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 23d
I will be there about 10:30 and am happy to go into the lost property if this is an offer that is of use.

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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 23d
If you are in the UCL /Euston area & you have a calculator that I can borrow this morning, please get in touch urgently!!!

I have a maths exam (10am), and my two have both just died!

Needs to be NOT internet connected; just old simple one.

Oh my life....

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Maarten Vink, Markus Klein , and 4 more

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 23d
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 24d
How have the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis affected the course of young people's lives?

New @suttontrust.bsky.social qualitative research of the COSMO cohort highlights those Altered Courses of young people's lives: www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
Altered courses - The Sutton Trust
An updated look at the impact of the COVID pandemic and cost-of-living crisis on young people.
www.suttontrust.com

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 26d
Oh, and Calpol plugins to help them still sleep under the circumstances.

www.calpol.co.uk/our-products...
www.calpol.co.uk

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 26d
It will pass (he says, in the middle of it again, due to the eldest starting school).

The alternative is, of course, the COVID lockdown. Our eldest had no colds for about the first eleven months of her life due to all that!

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 27d
My daughter has also tried this, along with signs informing her little sister how to use chairs, and forbidding our dog from going upstairs (which work in a correlation but not causation way, in that he doesn’t go upstairs anyway)

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Daily Spurious Correlation 🤖 @dailycorrelation.bsky.social · 28d
Popularity of the first name Christopher correlates with Burglaries in Oklahoma (r=0.966)

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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Oct 29
How else will it get done?

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Todd Pugatch, Jake Anders

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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · Oct 27
Empirical evidence and conceptual reasoning suggest quasi-experimental studies—the most common form of studies making causal claims—have a "p-hacking" problem.

My essay on this and the case for adapting & adopting QED preregistration is now published in Evaluation Review.

doi.org/10.1177/0193...
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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · Oct 25
What are the post-pandemic inequalities in wellbeing? And are pandemic events still casting a shadow for some young people?

Reporting results that are now forthcoming in a journal article for Social Indicators Research.

Reposted by Jake Anders

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Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · Oct 21
TODAY on the Economics Observatory – What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing?
By @jakeanders.uk
What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing? - Economics Observatory
The social restrictions and disrupted educational experiences resulting from Covid-19 have had a negative impact on many young people’s mental health. The damage to wellbeing has been more persistent…
buff.ly

Reposted by Benjamin Braun, Ingo Rohlfing, Jake Anders

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · Oct 16
Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
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