Briefings and impact

Briefing papers

Women’s pay penalty and job quality: initial findings from Next Steps at Age 32

This briefing explores the extent to which gender pay gaps persist among 32-year-olds. It looks at gender pay gaps between both men and women with and without children, and the extent to which these differences can be explained by the characteristics of employees themselves and the jobs they do. This includes cohort members’ perceptions of ‘job quality’.

Briefing papers

Economic inactivity before reaching State Pension Age: Life course evidence from the 1958 National Child Development Study

In this briefing, we examine the economic activity changes within the 1958 cohort before State Pension Age, using life course data to investigate factors associated with economic inactivity and labour market exits.

Briefing papers

Fertility intentions and postponed parenthood: initial findings from Next Steps at age 32

This briefing investigates fertility intentions among 32-year-olds taking part in Next Steps. It focuses on the reasons why people who do want to have children (or more children) might postpone doing so, within a challenging social and economic context.

Briefings & Impact

Shoplifting and neighbourhood crime at age 17: Longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Author: Emla Fitzsimons and Aase Villadsen

This briefing note shows the overall prevalence of shoplifting and neighbourhood crime at age 17 and its co-occurrence with other types of offences. Various prior factors are examined in terms of their association with engaging in these crime types, including family socioeconomics and environment, mental health, and previous experiences of offending. 

Briefing papers

The importance of maths: Evidence from the CLS cohort studies

Author: Charlotte Booth, Claire Crawford, and Vanessa Moulton

The UK’s two main political parties agree that improving maths skills should be high up on the education agenda, however they disagree on the best way to do this. The Conservatives want to make maths compulsory to the age of 18, while Labour place emphasis on supporting the early development of maths skills. This policy briefing outlines evidence from the CLS cohorts on the development of maths skills. 

Briefing papers

Student loans: Who will be negatively impacted by the latest reforms?

The government recently introduced changes to the student loans system, which included lowering and freezing the income repayment threshold, and increasing the repayment period from 30 to 40 years. This briefing note adds to previous work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, documenting the financial impact of the reforms.

Briefing papers

Care leavers and their children: Evidence on how care experience affects the next generation – policy briefing

This policy briefing examines findings from the first UK study to look at care leavers as mothers, following their development and that of their children from early childhood to adolescence and into adulthood, using two British cohort studies. It shows how the long-term effects of care experience can be eased.

This briefing paper draws on findings from a two-year research project funded by the Nuffield Foundation, focusing on the experiences of mothers with care experience and the mental wellbeing of their teenage children.

Briefing papers

Mental health of at-risk teenagers – Evidence from children of care leavers and those from socially disadvantaged families in the Millennium Cohort Study

Briefing papers

Resources available to mothers who experienced out-of-home care in childhood: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Author: Sam Parsons and Ingrid Schoon

What are the socioeconomic and psychosocial resources available to female care-leavers who became mothers? It is well documented that the experience of out-of-home care can lead to more problematic post-16 transitions and poorer adult outcomes. This new research examines the experiences of care-leavers who become mothers.

Reports

‘First in family’: higher education choices and labour market outcomes

Author: Anna Adamecz-Volgyi, Morag Henderson and Nikki Shure

This report summarises research from a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation entitled ‘First in Family’: higher education choices and labour market outcomes’. The project examines how ‘first in family’ students, those whose parents do not have a degree but who go on to achieve one themselves, navigate the higher education system and the labour market compared to their peers.