Please find below my writing on the impact of Covid-19 on education in England.

Scientific Papers

These papers are freely available to everyone.

• Balancing the risk of pupils returning to school DELVE/Royal Society Report, 24/7/2020
• How can we make up the Learning Losses from Lockdown? Economics Observatory 15/6/2020

Policy writing

These links are to short (-ish) blog posts written to highlight interesting findings or to comment on education policy.

• There can be no "levelling up" without education recovery (June 2021)
• What can we learn from Covid transmission in schools from teacher absence figures? (January 2021)
• New attendance figures paint a worrying picture of mass absences. (December 2020)
• Learning loss: the National Tutoring Programme for England is a valuable step – but may not go far enough (November 2020)

• Pupils in the poorest areas of the country are missing the most schooling (October 2020)

• Educational Inequalities: Beyond COVID (slides). Royal Statistical Society International Conference. September 2020

• When Should Schools Re-open? Economics Observatory 29/5/2020

• The Covid Crisis and Educational Inequality Academy of Social Sciences 20/5/20

• Education and Lockdown: Skills, Transitions and Inequalities (slides) (video) Royal Economic Society Webinar series on Covid-19 7/5/20
• School is out: does it hurt us? Discover Economics 30/4/2020
• BBC Radio 4 Briefing Room Show on Lockdown and Inequality BBC/4/2020
• Schools, skills, and learning: The impact of COVID-19 on education VOX-EU, 1/4/2020
• The long term consequences of missing a term of school IZA 31/3/2020