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Richard Dorsett

@rdorsett.bsky.social

Professor of Economic Evaluation, University of Westminster Economics - labour, education, crime. Causal inference. richarddorsett.com

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

It’s been great to work with @randeurope.org and @fftedudatalab.bsky.social on this evaluation

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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 25/07/2025

Learn more about the Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce - youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/eval...

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Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce | Youth Endowment Fund

Providing specialist support to alternative provision schools to improve their skills and capabilities

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Very nice use of data linkage with astonishing results ijpds.org/article/view...

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Estimated cumulative incidence of intervention by children's social care services to age 18: a whole-of-England administrative data cohort study using the child in need census | Internationa...

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Research Fellow opportunity at the University of Westminster for someone interested in applying their quant/code/data skills to employment/social policy projects - apply by 25 Feb vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

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HR Vacancies - Search Jobs University of Westminster

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Nice to meeet you

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Really interesting analysis - policymakers need accurate information and admin data offers obvious advantages (and disadvantages). Surprised by Fig 2 though, since graphing published series of *employee* jobs (below) shows more employees under the RTI definition than with LFS.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

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Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Finally relocating and looking for people to follow. Main interests are in labour supply and the school-to-work transition. Methods too - randomised trials, quasi experiments, survival analysis - and data. More recently, self-employment and using machine learning for heterogeneous effects.

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