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Biography

Andrew Eyles is a data scientist in the private sector and an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. Primarily an applied labour economist, his research interests are the economics of education and social mobility. His work has featured in the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times, and the Economist. He is also a PhD candidate (economics) at University College, London.

Current areas of research include:

Determinants of human capital accumulation and their effect on socioeconomic differences in academic attainment.
The long run effect of Covid-19 on intergenerational mobility.
The use of machine learning to understand trends in intergenerational mobility and changes in the determinants of mobility over time.

Publications

Blog

The rising tide of school absences in the post-pandemic era

While many presumed school attendance levels would recover rapidly from the impact of the pandemic, new research reveals the scale of continued absenteeism among school pupils across the country. Andrew Eyles, Esme Lilly... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Esme Lillywhite

28 June 2023

Blog

Mapping changes in educational achievement across England

As part of the LSE Festival 2023, the Mapping People and Change exhibition visualises data through maps on various socio-economic issues, providing insights into the impact of a rapidly changing world on people and commu... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Myung Jin

12 June 2023

Journal article

Intergenerational home ownership

This paper studies intergenerational links in home ownership, an increasingly important wealth marker and a measure of economic status in itself. Repeated cross sectional UK data show that home ownership rates have falle... Read more...

Jo Blanden, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

05 April 2023

Blog

Train in vain? Skills, tasks, and training in the UK labour market

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged that measures in the budget would help break down barriers that stop people working. One issue is how to ensure we have the skills the economy needs. Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles,... Read more...

Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Kathleen Henehan and Sandra McNally

16 March 2023

External publications

Train in vain?

Human capital and skills are important for improving the UK's labour market and economic performance. This note assesses how the skills needed in the UK labour market have changed over past decades, and how well placed o... Read more...

Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Kathleen Henehan and Sandra McNally

05 December 2022

Blog

Rising school absences: the post pandemic education divide

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the equalising power of schooling. Over 28% of primary and 40% of secondary school pupils who qualified for free school meals were persistently absent during the 2021/22 autumn term.... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

17 October 2022

Blog

The Johnson legacy: education

Andrew Eyles explains that while the government's goals in education policy have been ambitious and are to be applauded, the policies in place fall short of the targets set out as part of the broader levelling up agenda.... Read more...

Andrew Eyles

26 August 2022

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

In brief... Social mobility in the time of Covid-19

Young people, especially those from poorer households, have been hard hit by the economic impact of Covid-19. Andrew Eyles assesses the extent of the shock and what it means for social mobility - the extent to which indi... Read more...

Andrew Eyles

21 June 2022

External publications

Social mobility: past, present and future

Andrew Eyles, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin forecast that relative income mobility levels in the UK could fall by as much as 12%, driven by learning loss in schools.... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

01 June 2022

Blog

Gloomy prospects for social mobility in the pandemic era

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles explain how a gap in missed education between richer and poorer children was exacerbated by stark home learning divides and the likely consequences for social mobility.... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

01 June 2022

Blog

Levelling up education

Andrew Eyles examines the UK's levelling up white paper, explaining how the plans for education may need to go further to be fully effective.... Read more...

Andrew Eyles

12 April 2022

Blog

Covid has hit social mobility in the UK, and young people's prospects are shrinking

The economic impact of Covid has hit young people, and especially poorer young people, harder than others. Andrew Eyles assesses the extent of the shock and what it means for social mobility, which was already in decline... Read more...

Andrew Eyles

10 January 2022

External publications

Changing jobs?

This report is about the nature and speed of change in the UK's labour market, about how past periods of rapid change have happened, and about workers' experiences as they have lived through these changes. It is written ... Read more...

Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Tzvetan Moev and Guglielmo Ventura

06 January 2022

External publications

Social mobility in the time of Covid: assessing the social mobility implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 has had a profound impact on the economic prospects of young people. This briefing note, which forms part of the Economy 2030 Inquiry, documents the unequal impact of economic shocks on the young and assesses wh... Read more...

Andrew Eyles

26 December 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Learning loss since lockdown

Young people in education have lost significant amounts of time in school during the pandemic - and this carries risks of lifetime scars. Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin reveal the scale of learning los... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

15 October 2021

Blog

Education's biggest challenge is ensuring consistency in what is being done across the system, within each school, and within each classroom

Lee Elliot Major and Andy Eyles write that when it comes to education reform, it is not so much what you do that counts, but how you do it. Policies need to be implemented well to make a difference and delivery needs to ... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

22 September 2021

Blog

Pupils lost a third of their expected learning during Covid, with Wales and Scotland even further behind

Most pupils missed over half of their expected days in the classroom during the pandemic, write Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin (LSE). Children in Scotland and Wales lost even more learning than those i... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

07 July 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Learning loss since lockdown: variation across the home nations

Empirical analysis of secondary microdata, bespoke social mobility surveys and administrative school attendance data reveal the extent of learning losses that have evolved in the four nations of the UK over the year of t... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

07 July 2021

CEP discussion papers

Trends in intergenerational home ownership and wealth transmission

Prior research on trends in intergenerational mobility in economic status has focused chiefly on income and earnings. There is hardly any research on trends in intergenerational wealth transmission, at least in part beca... Read more...

Jo Blanden, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

01 April 2021

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations

Covid-19: Education

Submission to the House of Commons Select Committee.... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

25 March 2021

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations

The impact of Covid-19 on education and children's services

Submission to the House of Commons Select Committee.... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

23 March 2021

CEP discussion papers

Unequal learning and labour market losses in the crisis: consequences for social mobility

The unequal learning and labour market losses arising in the UK due to the Covid-19 pandemic are used to assess the consequences for social mobility. Labour market and learning losses have been more pronounced for people... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

25 February 2021

Blog

Further school closures mean bleak prospects for the young

Further closures of schools, while necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19, are likely to exacerbate educational inequalities. Learning losses could have long-term consequences for the life chances of children from d... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles

08 January 2021

Blog

Covid-19 and social mobility: the public support key policies that will help limit widening inequalities in employment and education

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles, and Stephen Machin present new data around public support behind the implementation of job guarantees, the reform of A-level and GCSE exams in 2021, and the abolition of predicted grades f... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

04 November 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Generation COVID: emerging work and education inequalities

The purpose of this brief paper is to present initial findings from the recently collected LSE-CEP Social Mobility survey, which was undertaken as part of our UKRI project ‘Generation COVID and Social Mobility: Evidence ... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

26 October 2020

Blog

Denied jobs and schooling, 'Generation Covid' faces a struggle to catch up

More than a tenth of young people have lost their jobs during the pandemic, and only 38% of pupils were getting the equivalent of a full day's schooling in lockdown. Lee Elliot Major (University of Exeter), Andrew Eyles ... Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

01 October 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Covid-19 school shutdowns: what will they do to our children's education?

Evidence from unexpected temporary school closures and reduced instruction time suggests school closures will reduce educational achievement, both in the short and long term. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Gibbons and Piero Montebruno

07 May 2020

Journal article

The introduction of academy schools to England's education

This paper studies the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past in advanced countriesï¿½the introduction of academy schools to English educat... Read more...

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

01 August 2019

Journal article

Academies 2 - The new batch: the changing nature of academy schools in England

The English education system has undergone large-scale restructuring through the introduction of academy schools. The most salient feature of these schools is that, despite remaining part of the state sector, they operat... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

01 March 2018

Journal article

Unexpected school reform: academisation of primary schools in England

The UK change of government in 2010 provoked a large structural change in the English education landscape. Unexpectedly, the new government offered primary schools the chance to have "the freedom and the power to take co... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

01 November 2017

External publications

The impact of academies on educational outcomes - the Education Policy Institute

The expansion of the academies programme has been one of the biggest changes to the English education system in a generation. 3.4 million children are now taught in either a sponsored or a converter academy. Those childr... Read more...

Jon Andrews, Natalie Perera, Andrew Eyles, Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Olmo Silva

01 July 2017

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Primary academies in England

Attendance at a primary academy leads to no discernible improvement in pupils’ test scores, according to research by Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally. This suggests that further extension of the academies ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

13 December 2016

CEP discussion papers

Unexpected school reform: academisation of primary schools in England

The change of government in 2010 provoked a large structural change in the English education landscape. Unexpectedly, the new government offered primary schools the chance to have ‘the freedom and the power to take contr... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

21 November 2016

Journal article

School reforms and pupil performance

The relationship between school reforms, specifically those involving the introduction of new school types, and pupil performance is studied. The particular context is the introduction of academy schools in England, but ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Claudia Hupkau and Stephen Machin

01 August 2016

Journal article

Academies, charter and free schools: Do new school types deliver better outcomes?

School reforms featuring the introduction of new types of schools have occurred in the education systems of a number of countries. The most well-known of these new school types to be recently introduced are charter schoo... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Claudia Hupkau and Stephen Machin

01 July 2016

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Academy schools and pupil outcomes

Nearly two thirds of secondary schools in England now have academy status. Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin are tracking the impact of this unprecedented educational reform on pupil outcomes - in both the first wave of '... Read more...

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

06 November 2015

CEP discussion papers

Academies 2: the new batch

The English education system has undergone a large restructuring programme through the introduction of academy schools. The most salient feature of these schools is that, despite remaining part of the state sector, they ... Read more...

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

04 September 2015

CEP discussion papers

The introduction of academy schools to England's education

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary e... Read more...

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

07 August 2015