Research round-up – January to March 2021

Are people particularly vulnerable to mental ill-health in midlife? And, are graduates with student loan debt less likely to become homeowners?

Does air pollution have an impact on children’s cognitive development? And have changes in people’s living arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased stress?

Researchers from around the world have been using CLS study data to tackle these and other important questions.

Below is a round-up of 70 new pieces of research that we’ve added to the CLS bibliography between January and March 2021. The research addresses pertinent questions in the fields of child development, education, health and mental health, and survey methods.

The CLS bibliography is a searchable database of research using the 1958, 1970, Next Steps and millennium cohort studies. If you have a paper to add to the bibliography, please contact us.

 

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Featured research

High-risk drinking increases during the first lockdown

1970 British Cohort Study participants were asked about their drinking habits in 2016-18 as part of the Age 46 Sweep, and again in May 2020 during the first sweep of the COVID-19 Survey in Five Longitudinal Studies. Researchers from Maynooth University, Ireland and the University of Liverpool found that rates of “high-risk drinking” – drinking too heavily or too frequently – had increased by 5 percentage points during the first lockdown compared to rates in 2016-2018 (from 19.4% to 24.6%). The number reporting drinking four or more times a week had more than doubled (from 12.5% to 26%).

High-Risk Drinking in Midlife Before Versus During the COVID-19 Crisis: Longitudinal Evidence From the United Kingdom by Michael Daly and Eric Robinson was published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (1970 British Cohort Study).

 

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Applied statistical methods

M-quantile regression for multivariate longitudinal data with an application to the Millennium Cohort Study by Marco Alfò, Maria Francesca Marino, Maria Giovanna Ranalli, Nicola Salvati and Nikos Tzavidis was published in Applied Statistics Series C (Millennium Cohort Study)

A magnifying glass for the study of coupled developmental changes: Combining psychological networks and latent growth models by Marie Deserno, Maien Sachisthal, Sacha Epskamp and Maartje Raijmakers was published in PsyArXiv Preprints (Millennium Cohort Study – pre-print)

LifeSim: A Lifecourse Dynamic Microsimulation Model of the Millennium Birth Cohort in England by Ieva Skarda, Miqdad Asaria and Richard Cookson was published in medRxiv (Millennium Cohort Study and 1970 British Cohort Study – pre-print)

 

Child development

Caesarean section and severe upper and lower respiratory tract infections during infancy: Evidence from two UK cohorts by Neora Alterman, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk and Maria A. Quigley was published in PLOS ONE (Millennium Cohort Study)

Lifelong exposure to air pollution and cognitive development in young children: the UK Millennium Cohort Study by Ai Milojevic, Peter Dutey-Magni, Lorraine Dearden and Paul Wilkinson was published in Environmental Research Letters (Millennium Cohort Study)

Gestational age on trajectories of social competence difficulties into adolescence by Mariko Hosozawa, Noriko Cable, Yvonne Kelly and Amanda Sacker was published in Archives of disease in childhood (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Is earlier obesity associated with poorer executive functioning later in childhood? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study by Hanna-Marie Creese, Steven Hope, Deborah Christie, Anne-Lise Goddings and Russell Viner was published in Pediatric Obesity (Millennium Cohort Study)

Developmental trajectories of ADHD symptoms in a large population-representative longitudinal study by Aja Louise Murray, Hildigunnur Anna Hall, Lydia Gabriela Speyer, Lara Carter, Daniel Mirman, Arthur Caye and Luis Rohde was published in Psychological Medicine (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Subjective Well-Being and Self-Esteem in Preterm Born Adolescents: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis by Ayten Bilgin, Asteria Brylka, Dieter Wolke, Hayley Trower, Nicole Baumann and Sakari Lemola was published in Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Gestational hypertension and childhood atopy: a Millennium Cohort Study analysis by Ian Henderson and Siobhan Quenby was published in European Journal of Pediatrics (Millennium Cohort Study)

Physical Activity, Mental Health, and Well-Being in Very Pre-Term and Term Born Adolescents: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Two Accelerometry Studies by Asteria Brylka, Dieter Wolke, Sebastian Ludyga, Ayten Bilgin, Juliane Spiegler, Hayley Trower, Anna Gkiouleka, Markus Gerber, Serge Brand and Alexander Grob was published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Millennium Cohort Study)

Inequality in skills for learning: do gaps in children’s socio-emotional development widen over time according to family background? by Matthew van Poortvliet was published in Oxford Review of Education (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

The bilingual gap in children’s language, emotional, and pro-social development by Deborah A Cobb-Clark, Colm Harmon and Anita Staneva was published in IZA Journal of Labor Economics (Millennium Cohort Study)

Gestational age at birth and child special educational needs: a UK representative birth cohort study by Neora Alterman, Samantha Johnson, Claire Carson, Stavros Petrou, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Alison Macfarlane, Elaine Boyle and Maria A Quigley was published in Archives of Disease in Childhood (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

The role of parental and child physical and mental health on behavioural and emotional adjustment in mid-childhood: a comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart by Sam Parsons, Alice Sullivan, Emla Fitzsimons and George Ploubidis was published in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Millennium Cohort Study and 1970 British Cohort Study)

Self-reported and mother-rated personality traits at age 16 are associated with cognitive function measured concurrently and 30 years later by Angelina R Sutin, Yannick Stephan, Martina Luchetti, Damaris Aschwanden, Amanda A Sesker, Páraic S O’Súilleabháin and Antonio Terracciano was published in Psychological Medicine (1970 British Cohort Study – paywall)

Just a phase? Mapping the transition of behavioural problems from childhood to adolescence by Joe Bathelt, Anna Vignoles and Duncan E Astle was published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (1970 British Cohort Study)

The Role of Maternal Postpartum Depression on Newborn and Siblings’ Behaviour by Lucia Schiavon was published as a Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” Working Paper (Millennium Cohort Study – working paper)

The allocation of after-school time and child socio-emotional skills by Elena Claudia Meroni, Daniela Piazzalunga and Chiara Pronzato was published as a working paper in Carlo Alberto Notebooks (Millennium Cohort Study – working paper)

Bringing Occupations Back In: Maternal Occupation-specific Skills and Children’s Language and Cognitive Development by Katherin Barg and Markus Klein was published in SocArXiv Papers (Millennium Cohort Study – pre-print)

Testing the specificity of environmental risk factors for developmental outcomes by Giacomo Bignardi, Edwin Dalmaijer and Duncan Astle was published in OSF Preprints (Millennium Cohort Study – pre-print)

 

Childhood adversity

Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence by Leonardo Bevilacqua, Yvonne Kelly, Anja Heilmann, Naomi Priest and Rebecca E Lacey was published in Child Abuse & Neglect (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Changes in peer and sibling victimization in early adolescence: longitudinal associations with multiple indices of mental health in a prospective birth cohort study by Helen Sharpe, Elian Fink, Fiona Duffy and Praveetha Patalay was published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Millennium Cohort Study)

Batty and Hamer Respond to “Out-of-Home Care and Mortality Risk” by G David Batty and Mark Hamer was published in American Journal of Epidemiology (1970 British Cohort Study – paywall)

 

COVID-19

Changing living arrangements and stress during Covid-19 lockdown: Evidence from four birth cohorts in the UK by Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Min Qin and Athina Vlachantoni was published in SSM – Population Health (Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Evaluating access to health and care services during lockdown by the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies by Constantin-Cristian Topriceanu, Andrew Wong, James C Moon, Alun D Hughes, David Bann, Nishi Chaturvedi, Praveetha Patalay, Gabriella Conti and Gaby Captur was published in BMJ Open (Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Associations between inhibitory control, stress, and alcohol (mis) use during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a national cross-sectional study utilising data from four birth cohorts by James M Clay, Lorenzo D Stafford and Matthew O Parker was published in medRxiv (Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study – pre-print)

 

Education

Educational Expectations: Do Ethnicity and Religion Make the Difference between Genders? by Giuseppina Autiero and Annamaria Nese was published in Forum for Social Economics (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

The impact of the dyslexia label on academic outlook and aspirations: An analysis using propensity score matching by Cathryn Knight was published in British Journal of Educational Psychology (Millennium Cohort Study)

In-class ‘ability’-grouping, teacher judgements and children’s mathematics self-concept: evidence from primary-aged girls and boys in the UK Millennium Cohort Study by Tammy Campbell was published in Cambridge Journal of Education (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

The early labour-market returns to upper secondary qualifications track in England by Queralt Capsada-Munsech and Vikki Boliver was published in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (Next Steps – paywall)

The predictive value of universal preschool developmental assessment in identifying children with later educational difficulties: A systematic review by David G Cairney, Aun Kazmi, Lauren Delahunty, Louise Marryat and Rachael Wood was published in PLOS ONE (1970 British Cohort Study)

Attainment grouping in primary school, verbal skills, and psychological symptoms in the United Kingdom; Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study by Alexis Karamanos was published as a PhD thesis (Millennium Cohort Study – PhD thesis)

Little fish, big streams: How do early in-class maths ‘ability’-groups and early teacher judgements relate to primary school children’s later maths self-concept? by Tammy Campbell was published as a working paper in CASEbrief (Millennium Cohort Study – working paper)

Adolescence development and the math gender gap by Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou and Almudena Sevilla was published as an IZA Discussion Paper (National Child Development Study – working paper)

 

Employment, income and wealth

Educational gradients in nonstandard work schedules among mothers and fathers in the United Kingdom by Afshin Zilanawala was published in Demographic Research (Millennium Cohort Study)

A short history of the gender wage gap in Britain by Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bo?ena Wielgoszewska and David Wilkinson was published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study – paywall)

 

Family and social networks

Medically assisted reproduction and parent–child relationships during adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study by Alice Goisis and Maria Palma was published in Human Reproduction (Millennium Cohort Study)

The intergenerational transmission of language skill by Alice Sullivan, Vanessa Moulton and Emla Fitzsimons was published in The British Journal of Sociology (Millennium Cohort Study)

Toward more accurate measures of family structure: Accounting for sibling complexity by Caroline Sanner and Todd M Jensen was published in Journal of Family Theory & Review (Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Having a sibling is like a treasure? Care for ageing parents by adult children with and without siblings by Jenny Chanfreau and Alice Goisis was published as a CLS Working Paper (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study – working paper)

 

Health behaviour

Associations of active travel with adiposity among children and socioeconomic differentials: a longitudinal study by Anthony A Laverty, Thomas Hone, Anna Goodman, Yvonne Kelly and Christopher Millett was published in BMJ Open (Millennium Cohort Study)

Waking Activities and Sleep: Analysis of UK Adolescents’ Daily Time-Use Diaries by Michael O Mireku was published in Journal of Adolescent Health (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

The Impact of Social Networking Sites Use on Health-Related Outcomes Among UK Adolescents by Alexander Serenko, Ofir Turel and Hafsa Siddiqui was published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports (Millennium Cohort Study)

Family income matters! Tracking of habitual car use for school journeys and associations with overweight/obesity in UK youth by Robert J Noonan was published in Journal of Transport & Health (Millennium Cohort Study)

Prospective relationships of adolescents’ screen-based sedentary behaviour with depressive symptoms: the Millennium Cohort Study by A Kandola, N Owen, DW Dunstan and M Hallgren was published in Psychological Medicine (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Childhood Obesity and Device-Measured Sedentary Behavior: An Instrumental Variable Analysis of 3,864 Mother–Offspring Pairs by Mark Hamer, Sebastien Chastin, Russell M Viner and Emmanuel Stamatakis was published in Obesity (1970 British Cohort Study)

Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects by C Christiansen, JE Castillo-Fernandez, A Domingo-Relloso, W Zhao, J Moustafa, JS El-Sayed,  PC Tsai, J Maddock, K Haack, SA Cole and SLR Kardia was published in Clinical Epigenetics (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Independent associations of sleep timing, duration and quality with adiposity and weight status in a national sample of adolescents: the UK Millennium Cohort Study by Paul J Collings was published in medRxiv (Millennium Cohort Study – pre-print)

Substance use and antisocial behaviour in adolescence – Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study at age 17 by E Fitzsimons and A Villadsen was published as a CLS briefing paper (Millennium Cohort Study – briefing paper)

 

Housing and local environment

The role of the indoor home environment in children’s self-regulation by Hope T Oloye and Eirini Flouri was published in Children and Youth Services Review (Millennium Cohort Study – paywall)

Does student loan debt structure young people’s housing tenure? Evidence from England by A. de Gayardon, Claire Callender and S. DesJardins was published in Journal of Social Policy (Next Steps – paywall)

 

Mental health and wellbeing

Psychological distress, self-harm and attempted suicide in UK 17-year olds: prevalence and sociodemographic inequalities by Praveetha Patalay and Emla Fitzsimons was published in The British Journal of Psychiatry (Millennium Cohort Study)

Risk-taking to obtain reward: sex differences and associations with emotional and depressive symptoms in a nationally representative cohort of UK adolescents by Gemma Lewis, Ramya Srinivasan, Jonathan Roiser, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Eirini Flouri and Glyn Lewis was published in Psychological Medicine (Millennium Cohort Study)

Psychological distress from early adulthood to early old age: evidence from the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts by Dawid Gondek, David Bann, Praveetha Patalay, Alissa Goodman, Eoin McElroy, Marcus Richards and George B Ploubidis was published in Psychological Medicine (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Early life mental health and problematic drinking in mid-adulthood: evidence from two British birth cohorts by Ke Ning, Praveetha Patalay, Jennifer L Maggs and George Ploubidis, B; was published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Mental health crisis in midlife – a proposed research agenda by Dawid Gondek, Bettina Moltrecht and George Ploubidis was published in Research Ideas and Outcomes (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Young people’s mental and emotional health: Trajectories and drivers in childhood and adolescence by Whitney Crenna-Jennings was published as an Education Policy Institute & Prince’s Trust report (Millennium Cohort Study – report)

The impact of family’s physical health on a child’s mental health: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study by Areej Al Ali was published as a PhD thesis (Millennium Cohort Study – PhD thesis)

 

Physical health

Life course psychological distress and cardiovascular disease risk factors in middle age: birth cohort study by G David Batty, Mark Hamer and Catharine R Gale was published in Cardiovascular Research (1970 British Cohort Study)

 

Poverty

Influence of childhood socioeconomic position and ability on mid-life cognitive function: evidence from three British birth cohorts by Eoin McElroy, Marcus Richards, Emla Fitzsimons, Gabriella Conti, George B Ploubidis, Alice Sullivan and Vanessa Moulton was published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study)

Early-life socioeconomic position and the accumulation of health-related deficits by midlife in the 1958 British birth cohort study by Nina Trivedy Rogers, Joanna M Blodgett, Samuel D Searle, Rachel Cooper, Daniel HJ Davis and Snehal M Pinto Pereira was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (National Child Development Study)

Understanding the relationship between intellectual disability, poverty and health variables in the UK and Brazil by Laura Barlow was published as a PhD thesis (Millennium Cohort Study – PhD thesis)

 

Survey methods

Data Quality in Web and App Diaries: A Person-Level Comparison by Stella Chatzitheochari and Elena Mylona was published in Journal of Time Use Research (Millennium Cohort Study)

Estimating the Measurement Effects of Mixed Modes in Longitudinal Studies: Current Practice and Issues by Alexandru Cernat and Joseph W Sakshaug was published in Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology (Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study – paywall)

Determinants of consent to administrative records linkage in longitudinal surveys: evidence from Next Steps by Darina Peycheva, George Ploubidis and Lisa Calderwood was published in Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology (Next Steps – paywall)

Comparison of a Thigh-Worn Accelerometer Algorithm With Diary Estimates of Time in Bed and Time Asleep: The 1970 British Cohort Study by Elif Inan-Eroglu, Bo-Huei Huang, Leah Shepherd, Natalie Pearson, Annemarie Koster, Peter Palm, Peter A Cistulli, Mark Hamer and Emmanuel Stamatakis was published in the Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (1970 British Cohort Study)

Toward a Working Definition of eCohort Studies in Health Research: Narrative Literature Review by Vasileios Nittas, Milo Alan Puhan and Viktor von Wyl was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (National Child Development Study)

International early learning and child well-being study assessment framework by Rowena Phair was published as an OECD Education Working Paper (Millennium Cohort Study, 1970 British Cohort Study and National Child Development Study – working paper)

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