The Economics of Education Research Centre (EERC) has been established, with funding from the Department for Education, to provide independent evidence on the benefits of education and improve appraisal and value-for-money analysis.
Our mission
The EERC will develop a robust evidence base to support DfE policy decisions on education and skills.
It will analyse the economic links between education and skills, including the drivers and consequences of young people being not in education, employment or training (NEET). including its focus on policy-relevant research, use of administrative and survey data, and commitment to independent, rigorous analysis that informs debate among policymakers, practitioners, and the public.
Partner institutions
The EERC is a collaboration between three leading research institutions with complementary strengths in the economics of education:
Our team
Directors
- Professor Lindsey Macmillan (UCL CEPEO)
- Christine Farquharson (IFS)
- Professor Sandra McNally (CEP, LSE)
Research staff
- Professor Jake Anders (UCL CEPEO)
- Dr Jack Britton (IFS)
- Dr Sarah Cattan (IFS)
- Professor Claire Crawford (UCL CEPEO)
- Dr Chiara Cavaglia (LSE CEP)
- Dr David Frayman (LSE CEP)
- Thomas Hyndman (IFS)
- Dr Christian Krekel (LSE CEP)
- Dr Sonya Krutikova (IFS)
- Professor Stephen Machin (LSE CEP)
- Sara MacLennan (LSE CEP)
- Kate Ogden (IFS)
- Professor Olmo Silva (LSE CEP)
- Natan Ornadel (IFS)
- Dr Nick Ridpath (IFS)
- Professor Almudena Sevilla (LSE CEP)
- Luke Sibieta (IFS)
- Dr Sam Sims (UCL CEPEO)
- Darcey Snape (IFS)
- Imran Tahir (IFS)
- Kartik Vira (IFS)
- Dr Ben Waltmann (IFS)
- Tom Wernham (IFS)
- Professor Gill Wyness (UCL CEPEO)
Governance
The EERC’s research agenda is developed by its team across the three partner institutions, with input from the Department for Education.
Executive Board
The Executive Board (EB) consists of one representative from each of the three consortium institutions:
Professor Lindsey Macmillan (EERC Director, Chair)
Christine Farquharson (IFS Institutional Lead)
Professor Sandra McNally (LSE Institutional Lead)
The EB is collectively responsible for strategic leadership, programme oversight, responsive research triage, risk management, and quality assurance.
Steering Group
The Steering Group is the senior strategic oversight and decision-making body for the EERC.
Its purpose is to:
- Ensure the EERC remains aligned with departmental priorities.
- Approve and oversee the EERC research programme.
- Provide strategic direction and decisions across research, responsive analysis and capability building activity.
- Review programme and contract performance.
- Consider significant risks, issues and opportunities.
The steering group operates at a strategic level. Detailed oversight of individual projects, delivery, methodology and governance is undertaken through the executive board and project-level governance arrangements.