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Lindsey Macmillan

Lindsey Macmillan

CASE Visiting Professor and Professor of Economics

Expertise: equality of opportunities, educational inequalities, labour market inequalities

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7331 5103
Email:
l.macmillan@ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Institute of Education

Biography

Lindsey is a Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), creating new research to inform evidence-led education policy and wider practice to equalise opportunities across the life course. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at London School of Economics. In Sept 2024, she was appointed to the Secretary of State for Work and Pension's Labour Market Advisory Board. Lindsey is Treasurer of the Scottish Economic Society Council, and Co-Editor of Education Economics.

Lindsey Macmillan's current research interests are:

  • Social mobility
  • Education inequality
  • Labour market inequalities

Lindsey's latest projects include:

Latest

CVER Research Papers
The mismatch earnings penalty

11 November 2024

Chiara Cavaglia, Lindsey Macmillan, Konstantina Maragkou, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

We disentangle the relationship between student ability, course quality and the match between the two on earnings, estimating the first mismatch parameter in the literature. Using administrative data on all state-educate... Read more...
Blog
How could the UK's education system be reformed to equalise opportunities?

05 June 2024

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

Nine out of ten respondents to a recent UK poll by More in Common for the Sutton Trust agreed that it is important for young people to have equal opportunities, regardless of their background. While recent YouGov pollin... Read more...
Journal article
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes

01 December 2023

Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

Many countries have introduced flexibility in their admissions equivalents for tertiary education, allowing students to apply with vocational rather than academic qualifications at upper secondary level. However, entrant... Read more...
Blog
Which educational policies are most effective for equalising opportunities?

15 June 2023

Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

Against a backdrop of poor productivity growth, severe skill shortages and increasing educational inequalities in the UK since the pandemic, investment in education and skills is essential. It requires policies that span... Read more...
Journal article
Inequalities in late adolescents' educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic

13 October 2022

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

While the health risks of Covid-19 for young people are low, they have borne a heavy cost of the pandemic through intense disruption to their education and social lives. These effects have not been experienced equally ac... Read more...
Blog
US student debt forgiveness: should the UK follow suit?

26 September 2022

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

A recently announced policy package will ease the burden of student debt for millions of Americans. Richard Murphy, Stuart Campbell, Gill Wyness and Lindsey Macmillan contend that, due to differences between the national... Read more...
Journal article
Grade expectations: how well can past performance predict future grades?

19 September 2022

Jake Anders, Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan and Gill Wyness

Students in the UK apply to university with teacher-predicted examination grades, rather than actual results. These predictions have been shown to be inaccurate, and to favour certain groups, leading to concerns about te... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
Understanding recent patterns in intergenerational social mobility: differences by gender, ethnicity, education, and their intersections

26 May 2022

Lindsey Macmillan and Abigail McKnight

This paper presents new estimates of recent social mobility in the UK by gender, education and ethnicity, and their intersections. We measure absolute social class mobility using data from the Labour Force Survey 2014-20... Read more...
Blog
Inequalities in student to degree match

13 February 2022

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

Researchers find students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to be undermatched to their degree courses both academically and in terms of earnings potential. Women are more likely than men to be underma... Read more...
Journal article
Matching in the dark? Inequalities in student to degree match

01 August 2021

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities, and tax authorities. We analyze two measures of match at the university subjec... Read more...
CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London

09 December 2015

Lindsey Macmillan (Institute of Education, University College London)

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CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars
The intergenerational transmission of worklessness

16 February 2011

Lindsey Macmillan (Institute of Education, University College London)

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