This report from UK think tank CEPEO examines the medium term impact of the pandemic on pupils with SEND. This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected students in England with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), particularly those with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). Drawing on national and local authority-level data from 2015–2022,...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO presents new comparative evidence on the decline in pupils' emotional engagement with school. Research has indicated how, in England, pupils' emotional engagement at school drops rapidly in the first stages of secondary education (Key Stage 3). But to what extent is a similar pattern observed in other countries,...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO examines the impact of debt forgiveness in promoting higher education outcomes. This paper examines the impact of a debt forgiveness program implemented in 2011 on education and labour market outcomes for student loan holders who pursued university education in Colombia. The policy generated a sharp discontinuity in the...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO investigates inequalities in access to professional occupations. Previous research has shown that disadvantaged young people are less likely to work in professional occupations than their advantaged peers, even when they have achieved the same level of education. Yet until now little has been known about the reasons for...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO investigates the rise in teenagers skipping school across English-speaking countries. Many countries are grappling with the long shadow that COVID has cast over their education systems, including dramatic increases in absence from school. This paper presents new insights into this issue by investigating how the proportion of teenagers...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO disentangles the relationship between student ability, course quality and the match between the two on earnings. 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-educated students...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO looks at decomposition and recomposition in teacher education. Breaking down sequences of teaching into constituent practices is thought to make learning to teach more manageable. However, it also divorces teaching practices from context, which risks leaving teachers unsure as to when or why to use a specific practice....

This report from UK think tank CEPEO shows the nature of sorting behaviour across generations has important implications for wealth inequality now and in the future. We study partnership sorting by education, the profile of wealth accumulation and the implications for intra and intergenerational wealth inequality for two cohorts born in 1947-1953 and 1973-1979 using...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO explores inequalities in labour market mismatch. In this paper we depart from traditional skills-based measures of occupational mismatch. Whereas skill-based measures are typically non-hierarchical, and involve comparing an individual's skills to those required by their occupation, we devise a new hierarchical method. Specifically, we create two continuous, measures...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO looks at young people's subjective wellbeing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it has caused had substantial short-term effects on young people. These effects have been found to be highly unequal, exacerbating existing inequalities in society, including those associated with socio-economic...