Our briefings and impact library includes summaries of our research findings as well as reports highlighting the impact of our cohort studies.
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Briefings & Impact
Shoplifting and neighbourhood crime at age 17: Longitudinal evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Mental health of at-risk teenagers – Evidence from children of care leavers and those from socially disadvantaged families in the Millennium Cohort Study
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Resources available to mothers who experienced out-of-home care in childhood: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
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
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.
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Long term associations of behavioural problems in early childhood
This briefing paper compares results across two generations of British children born 30 years apart – participants in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) – to examine how health and behavioural problems in early childhood can cast a long shadow on a wide range of outcomes over the lifecourse.
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Carrying or using a weapon at age 17 – Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
This report shows the overall prevalence of weapon carrying and use at age 17 and its co-occurrence with other types of offences. Various prior factors are examined in terms of their association with carrying or using a weapon, including individual characteristics, socioeconomic background, family environment, mental health, school and peer factors, and prior behaviours and experiences.
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Substance use and antisocial behaviour in adolescence – Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study at age 17
This report shows overall prevalences of engagement in risky behaviours, alongside breakdowns by sex, by parental educational level, and by UK country. In terms of sample characteristics, 50% were females, 36% had parents with a university degree or above, 13% were of ethnic minority origin, and the UK nations were represented by England (84%), Wales (5%), Scotland (8%) and Northern Ireland (3%). Analyses are adjusted for survey design and attrition, so figures are nationally representative estimates of risky behaviours among young people born in the UK around the turn of the millennium.
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