Professor Lindsey Macmillan

Blog

Pupils with graduate parents received an unfair advantage in their A-level results last year

10 June 2021

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

Following a disastrous attempt to assign pupil grades using a controversial algorithm, last year's GCSE and A-level grades were eventually determined using Centre Assessed Grades. New survey evidence finds that some pupi... Read more...

Blog

Almost two-thirds of Black British young people would be reluctant to get a COVID vaccine

17 March 2021

Jake Anders, Lindsey Macmillan, Patrick Sturgis and Gill Wyness

We may need to vaccinate under-18s to get the pandemic under control. Patrick Sturgis (LSE), Lindsey Macmillan, Jake Anders and Gill Wyness (UCL Institute of Education) on the findings of a UCL CEPEO / LSE COVID-19 surve... Read more...

CEP discussion papers

Inequalities in student to course match: evidence from linked administrative data

28 August 2019

Stuart Campbell, Lindsey Macmillan, Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

This paper examines inequalities in the match between student quality and university quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the univer... Read more...

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London

09 December 2015

Lindsey Macmillan (UCL Institute of Education)

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers

Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London

30 September 2015

Jo Blanden, Ellen Greaves, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan and Luke Sibieta

London is an educational success story, with especially good schooling results for more disadvantaged pupils. This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. This paper uses a combination of administrative and survey data to ... Read more...

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers

When and Why do Initially High Attaining Poor Children Fall Behind?

28 July 2015

Claire Crawford, Lindsey Macmillan and Anna Vignoles

The role of education as a potential driver of social mobility has been well established in both the theoretical (Blau and Duncan, 1967; Becker and Tomes, 1986) and empirical literature (Atkinson, 1980; Atkinson and Jenk... Read more...

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers

Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

27 March 2014

Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given... Read more...

CASEpapers

Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

29 January 2014

Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given... Read more...

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

The intergenerational transmission of worklessness

16 February 2011

Lindsey Macmillan (UCL Institute of Education)

Journal article

Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: noncognitive skills, ability and education

01 April 2007

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level... Read more...