I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO) at UCL’s IOE. I am interested in the economics of education, labour economics and applied econometrics. Recently, my work has focused on higher education, specifically: (i) the role of teacher assessments, including predicted grades in university admissions in the UK; (ii) the causes and consequences of inequalities in higher education mismatch; (iii) the returns to a university degree.

I received my PhD in economics from Sciences Po in 2022, supervised by Ghazala Azmat and Jean-Marc Robin.

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UPDATES

• NEW WORKING PAPER Estimating heterogeneous returns to college by cognitive and non-cognitive ability. CEPEO Working Paper (09/2025)
• NEW WORKING PAPER Private highs: Investigating university overmatch among students from elite schools, with Jo Blanden, Lindsey Macmillan, Gill Wyness. CEPEO Working Paper (06/2025)
• NEW REPORT The merits of teacher assessment versus external exams to measure student achievement. with Gill Wyness. IZA World of Labor 2025: 517 doi: 10.15185/izawol.517
• NEW WP COMING SOON Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach, with Lindsey Macmillan, Rich Murphy, and Gill Wyness.