This morning the Sutton Trust have been named as a core participant for Module 8 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. This module will look at Children and Young People, and we will contributing based on evidence from our research throughout the pandemic as well as findings from COSMO study. #edusky

Academic writing thought: That it was hard for YOU to figure something out does not mean you should make it hard for the READER to get it Explain as simply & clearly as you can You do not need to take the reader through your lengthy journey to clarity Work that took months may end up a footnote

Economists are pro-competition, warning against concentrated markets – dominated by a few large firms. But where is concentration high and increasing? In economics itself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Economists like competition but not when it comes to their own field of research | Torsten Bell

Winners of prizes such as the Nobel are concentrated in a handful of universities, which runs the risk of narrowing debate

Why do we find it so hard to accept coincidences for what they are? Good discussion in @financialtimes.comon.ft.com/3X2A5do

Why do we find it so hard to accept coincidences for what they are?

Apparently meaningful relations between events get us hunting for causation in vain

Depressing discussion of the level of statistical understanding in society www.economist.com/britain/2024...

Sure — there have to be people in that ~5% or it’d be 0%. And, as you say, that accumulated housing wealth was helping there, as we note is important in that context. But you don’t — for better or worse — fit the profile of the vast majority of those with kids at private school.

Your chances of sending a child to private school fall below 10% outside the top 5% of the income distribution. So far outside any reasonable definition of “middle”. (Figure from this paper of ours: doi.org/10.1080/0964...)

It’s a real problem that most people on high incomes (top 10%/20%) don’t realise they’re on high incomes. They think they’re in the middle. So policies that only affect the top 20-1% get reported as if they affect the majority of the public. People sending kids…1/3

🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social#UNIGEwww.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

🚨 New preprint: Socioeconomic status, school absenteeism, and academic achievement: A causal mediation analysis We found that early school absences account for 6.5% to 8.1% of SES-achievement gaps osf.io/preprints/so...@jaschadraeger.bsky.social