Lindsey Macmillan

CASE Visiting Professor and Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO) at UCL Institute of Education

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7331 5103

Email:

l.macmillan@ucl.ac.uk

Links:

UCL Institute of Education

Latest

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...

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

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...

Journal article

Educational inequality, educational expansion and intergenerational mobility

01 October 2016

Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan

The distribution of education by social background and the mobility prospects of society are intimately connected. To begin to predict future trends in mobility in the UK we bring together evidence on educational inequal... Read more...

Journal article

Higher education, career opportunities, and intergenerational inequality

01 January 2016

Claire Crawford, Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan, Anna Vignoles and Gill Wyness

The UK government has expressed a desire to increase social mobility, with policies to help achieve this aim focused on reducing inequalities in educational attainment. This paper draws together established and new infor... 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)

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...