Jake Anders

Britain’s most ridiculous bus journey just got more ridiculous Thursday 15th June 2023 I blogged about the West Ealing to West Ruislip ‘ghost bus’ when it began back in January. Readers may recall Arriva owned Chiltern Railways’ rail replacement division…

Re: your link about the Chiltern weekly replacement bus service, I think you’ll enjoy learning that — just to add to the general ludicrousness of the situation — it was for a time operated by a great big Oxford Tube coach busandtrainuser.com/2023/06/15/b...

Use of “trending” about anything that isn’t a process drives to me distraction when reviewing (and at all other times). 😤

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists!

Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂

Dates: 22-26 September
Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
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New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social blog post.

Our brilliant PhD student @robbiemaris.bsky.social has been looking at inequalities in resit performance.

Those performing worst in resits are:

- Disadvantaged students
- Students w unauthorised absences in year 11
- Students entered into resits too early

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay (July 2025) - I examine teacher preferences using a discrete-choice experiment linked to data on teacher effectiveness. I estimate willingness to pay for a rich set of compensation elements and workin...

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"for three key objectives: maximizing teacher utility, maximizing teacher retention, and maximizing student achievement...schools underutilize salary and performance pay while overutilizing retirement benefits"

Irony

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

A road sign to Palestine.

Once went there to see what was there on the strength of the name alone. There was not much there.

Check out some research I did with Zack Dorner, Stephane Hess and Steve Tucker...

We explored the associations between social media use and Vaccine preferences during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand. A very interesting context to study vaccine preferences, given NZ's unique covid response!

What are the barriers to children’s early learning?

Over the last 18 months, @laouthwaite.bsky.social has worked with Ofsted, as part of the URKI Policy Fellowship scheme, to explore this question. Here’s what she found, why it matters, and what we can do about it

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Effective remediation programs for vulnerable students to overcome learning loss In March 2020, the world was forced to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, schools in many countries closed to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Students were required to shift to ...

New paper alert! 🔔📘 The second paper of my PhD is out in PLOS One! We studied remediation programs after the first COVID-19 school closures in primary education in the Netherlands, focusing on their impact on reading and mathematics test scores. With @carlahaelermans.bsky.social & Martijn Meeter

Can confirm this works. After a bit of looking about: Switch the Copilot panel to Agent, click the Configure Tools button to the left of the send message button, choose Add More Tools, choose Command, fill in the RScript command as per the website.

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.

As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
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Even better, consider giving @kagi.com a go.

Wow…

CEPEO Annual Lecture 2025: Making smart investments in early childhood education Hear Chloe Gibbs draw together evidence from across her research portfolio to provide insights into making smart investments in early childhood education.

Our Annual Lecture with Professor Chloe Gibbs is getting closer!

Sign up now for the event on the evening of 10 July, discussing making smart investments in early childhood education:

www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Longitudinal Educational Achievements | University of Helsinki EU Horizon Europe project Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing iNequalities (LEARN).

This week @jakeanders.uk is taking part in a consortium meeting of @learnineq.bsky.social.

Along with @dominicpkelly.bsky.social and @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, CEPEO is contributing to the project's work with partners across Europe on understanding educational inequalities. helsinki.fi/learn

UKRI policy fellowships 2025 Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...

Calling academics! Are you interested in inequalities in higher education? Do you have experience of evaluation? @taso.org.uk have secured an 18 month UKRI policy fellowship on contextualised admissions

Details www.ukri.org/opportunity/... lnkd.in/eTFT6Qe4

Webinar for applicants 20 May: pls share!

The full paper (with @ericaholtwhite.bsky.social) is currently under review at a journal, but the working paper is available on my website: projects.jakeanders.uk/cosmo-wellbe...

This week I published a new piece on @econ-observatory.bsky.social looking at differences in young people’s post-pandemic wellbeing.

🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.

Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

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 ...

📢📢New blog out today 📢📢

Our DD @jakeanders.uk uses COSMO data to determine the lasting impact of the pandemic on young people's wellbeing.

Evidence suggests girl and non-binary students show persistently lower wellbeing.

Read the report here: www.economicsobservatory.com/what-are-the...

Uneven shifts: the geography of occupational change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, 1992–2018 ABSTRACT. Amid renewed interest in geographical inequalities in life chances and an ongoing debate about occupational upgrading versus polarisation, we investigate how the occupational structure chang...

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social

We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

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…

JUST PUBLISHED – What are the lingering effects of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing? By @jakeanders.uk

A bit of news...

I'm leaving the Sutton Trust at the start of July, so my job is up for grabs! Happy to answer any Qs on it 😊

Will say the exciting thing I'm off to do next soon (!)

I saw it as a friendly little wave…

Definitely worth reading and updating reporting approaches in new trials with SPIRIT2025 (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) and CONSORT2025 (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) to maximise consistency and transparency of evaluation work.

PhD Research Fellowship in “Inequalities in Education” (279314) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in “Inequalities in Education” (279314), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, May 21, 2025

‼️ I am hiring ‼️

We are looking for a PhD candidate in "Inequalities of Education" (100%, 3 years) at CREATE: Centre for Research on Equality in Education, University of Oslo.

Amazing data, incl. admin, survey and genetics (MoBa)

‼️Deadline May 21 ‼️

Questions? Feel free to reach out!

#econsky