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:

CASE
UCL Institute of Education

Latest

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

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...

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...