Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Age 23 Sweep are now available to download from the UK Data Service.
Ignoring or shouting at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can worsen the problems they face forming friendships and regulating their emotions.
People who moved home frequently when they were growing up are more likely to feel a lack of control over their own lives in adolescence and have poorer mental health in adulthood – but only if they also experienced downward social mobility.
Children from certain minority ethnic backgrounds experience fewer injuries than children from White British backgrounds. This is despite them being more likely to experience poverty and to live in poor-quality housing, which are known to be risk factors for childhood injury.
People who have ADHD traits at age 10 are more likely than those without such traits to have physical health problems and to report physical health-related disability at age 46.
Labour market returns for female graduates have been historically overestimated using tax data, as much of the documented graduate pay premium is the result of female graduates working longer hours, not higher hourly wages.
Young people with out of home care (OHC) experience face multiple health, social and socioeconomic disadvantages in their late teens and early twenties, according to new UCL research.
Two-year-olds in England watch television, videos or other digital content for an average of two hours each day, double the daily screen time recommended by the World Health Organisation for this age group.
Children living in damp and overcrowded homes missed three weeks more of school over the course of compulsory education than their peers in better quality housing.
The UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies welcomes the publication of the ESRC’s review of its investment in cohort studies.
Millennials who faced family financial hardship, parents’ separation or violence in the home during childhood are more likely to have mental health difficulties in their early 30s.
Professor Emla Fitzsimons is to take up the role of CLS director on 1 December 2025.
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is inviting expressions of interest from experts wishing to join our Scientific Advisory Network (SAN).
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