Robert Wishart

Economist, Evaluator and Social Researcher, views are my own.

[What Works @WhatWorksUK]

Today the Evaluation Task Force is pleased to announce the appointment of new Evaluation & Trial Advice Panel members!

Panel members will be supporting government departments to design and deliver robust evaluations so we can evidence 'what works'.

https://t.co/zGJPge4H8c

[Robert Wishart @RobbieWishart]

@GeorgeLankester @IpswichLabour Congratulations George!

[Lydia Marshall @LydiaMresearch]

We are hiring! If you are a research, evaluation, assessment or policy specialist who is passionate about understanding and improving learning in lower- and middle-income contexts, we'd love to hear from you.

https://t.co/S0pPlJU6Yj

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

‘Use it or lose it’ father’s leave can help promote gender equality and change our working culture. One of the ideas from my new book, Go Big. https://t.co/mwjs7cgfx5

[Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social @PatMcGovern16]

So I have just had a quick look at what the Commission On Race and Ethnic Disparities had to say about hiring because one of the major developments over the past 20 years has been the use of social audit studies to examine discrimination #RacismReport 1/

[Helen Barnard @Helen_Barnard]

Saying that worse outcomes for some black & minority ethnic groups is mainly explained by their higher poverty rates isn't demonstrating that race & racism aren't major causes. It's showing that racial injustice helps lock people in poverty, with terrible consequences.

[Kathleen Henehan @kathleenhenehan]

The issue of race disparity is in the news today – an area we @resfoundation have previously explored, with a particular focus on labour market and living standards for ethnic minority workers, and their families. Here’s some of what we’ve found… 1/11

[Elaine Kelly @ElaineKellyecon]

What to say about the #SewellReport #RacismReport ? Didn't sit well with me, either with my researcher hat on, or my regular person hat on. Those with lived experience better placed to talk abt emotional impact. 3 reflections with my economist hat on (not exhaustive).

[Nick HK @nickchk]

I have a new paper out in Economic Inquiry with a buncha coauthors: The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics. What's it about?... https://t.co/pVMucokLj4

[Robert Wishart @RobbieWishart]

@acereduau @DrSueThomson @SmithFamily_org @steven_kolber Will this be recorded?

[Anne Sophie Lassen @AnSoLassen]

While robot adaption increases the earnings of men and women, it also increases the gender pay gap

The effects of robotization exacerbate existing inequalities! Here, the underrepresentation of women in medium- and high-skill jobs in exposed industries worsen the pay gap

[Robert Wishart @RobbieWishart]

@jmwooldridge @InductiveStep

[Ashwin Kumar @KumarAshwin]

Rather than just looking at the median, here's the distribution of income in London compared to the rest of the UK: in London, there are more people in poverty, a lot fewer on below-median income, more people on higher incomes

[Robert Wishart @RobbieWishart]

Great thread on how RCTs and observational studies are complimentary in causal inference

[Miguel Hernán @_MiguelHernan]

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We've just confirmed the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine outside of randomized trials.

Details @NEJM: https://t.co/POgXK8owvM

Yes, great news, but let's talk about methodological issues that arise when using #observational data to estimate vaccine effectiveness.

[Lydia Marshall @LydiaMresearch]

More UK #education recovery funding announced yesterday. Here's my colleague @JonahBury on what we've learnt about the role that online tuition can play.
https://t.co/zc7kciTeEh

[NatCen @NatCen]

*BLOG* Education catch-up: is online tuition the future?

For @FENews, Jonah Bury discusses our independent evaluation of the @EducEndowFoundn National Online Tuition Pilot - aimed at supporting disadvantaged children with learning in 2020

Read it here: https://t.co/c8vTApiKNj

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

NEW BLOG: Summer schools – what the evidence tells us and what it doesn’t

"If schools are going to put on summer provision, a key consideration will be how to target and engage the pupils who could benefit most" says EEF's @JonathanKay9 https://t.co/72jy41X3Wb

[NatCen @NatCen]

NEW: Research from @EducEndowFoundn and @NatCen shows online tuition can be successful in engaging disadvantaged pupils in remote learning.

87% of learners who received tutoring during our study said they would like to continue.

Read more: https://t.co/lpyIrWRDCX

[Lydia Marshall @LydiaMresearch]

Great to see our evaluation of the National Online Tutoring pilot published today.

Hoping this report can be a really useful resource for teachers, parents, learners and tutoring organisations looking to support learning this year.

@EducEndowFoundn @JonahBury @RobbieWishart

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

JUST ONE GRAPH IN THE DAILY MAIL - a thread.