- Final #economicsfest session for this year, on social mobility. @PJTheEconomist @profsimonb @KimberleyScharf @M_Heffernan & Abigail McKnight
- Here's the #economicsfest panel pic.twitter.com/Lh1Jnnkp58
- Social mobility is lowest in ..... the U.S. UK's only 2nd worst. Canada best says (Canadian) @KimberleyScharf #economicsfest
- Wonderful numbers of young people in our #economicsfest this year. Thank you for coming. pic.twitter.com/yQJEhNzD9u
- What opportunities for the poor? What are the problems with a top 1% no-one can move into? Two sets of issues @PJTheEconomist #economicsfest
- And @PJTheEconomist flagging up new issue of declining opportunities for younger generation, unless they have rich families. #economicsfest
- Social mobility: key facts on link between family background+educational attainment, @PJTheEconomist #economicsfest https://www.ifs.org.uk/docs/appg_040711.pdf …
- Intergenerational mobility - overview of @CEP_LSE research, #economicsfest: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp270.pdf …
- You can succeed in life wherever you start, but family background is really important @profsimonb #economicsfest
- Is education policy a blunt instrument when it comes to #SocialMobility? #economicsfest @cmpobristol: https://cmpo.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/is-education-policy-a-blunt-instrument-when-it-comes-to-social-mobility/ …
- A good school is a big part of getting on, but kids from poorer families more likely to go to low-perf. school @profsimonb #economicsfest
- What we know about teacher effectiveness - education economist @profsimonb, #economicsfest #SocialMobility: https://montrose42.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/what-we-know-about-teacher-effectiveness-simon-burgess/ …
- Social mobility declined in UK when economy was doing well, but we're feeling it now growth is slow, says Abigail McKnight #economicsfest
- The glass floor is a problem, as well as the glass ceiling, if we're to get more social mobility, Abigail McKnight #economicsfest
- Downward mobility, opportunity hoarding+the 'glass floor', Abigail McKnight @CASE_LSE #economicsfest #SocialMobility https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-research-exposes-the-glass-floor-in-british-society …
- In a race between the rich and the state, the rich are going to win, Abigail McKnight #economicsfest
- Teacher autonomy needed to ensure quality of teaching, teachers here too beleaguered & disrespected, says @KimberleyScharf #economicsfest
- No other country has exams at 16; we just use them to sort people socially, @PJTheEconomist #economicsfest
- Graduate earnings: what you study+where matters, but so does parents’ income, @AnnaVignoles research #economicsfest: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graduate-earnings-what-you-study-and-where-matters-but-so-does-parents-income …
- Happy children become satisfied adults, successful children less so - @CEP_LSE research @EJ_RES, #economicsfest: http://www.res.org.uk/details/mediabrief/6930031/HAPPY-CHILDREN-BECOME-SATISFIED-ADULTS-SUCCESSFUL-CHILDREN-LESS-SO.html …
- Behaviour incentives raise GCSE attainment in schools in poor neighbourhoods, @profsimonb #economicsfest: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/october/pupil-incentives.html …
- Qu asking how kids from poor families are meant to get do all the extra curricular activities you seem to need to get to uni #economicsfest
- School postcode lottery: how to improve the odds for poorer children, @profsimonb, #economicsfest #SocialMobility: https://theconversation.com/school-postcode-lottery-how-to-improve-the-odds-for-poorer-children-53335 …
- Grammar schools increase inequality+do not raise social mobility, International evidence @profsimonb #economicsfest: http://www.coeure.eu/wp-content/uploads/Human-Capital-and-education.pdf …
- Why do grammar school systems increase inequality? @profsimonb, #economicsfest #SocialMobility: https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/why-do-grammar-school-systems-increase-inequality/ …
- Great @FestivalofIdeas #economicsfest #Basic income, #inequality, #crime Thanks @DianeCoyle1859 for a brilliant programme once again
