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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
People who remain members of clubs and societies throughout their lives tend to have a higher daily step count and exercise more in their mid-40s.
Obesity rates among children with learning difficulties are higher and rise faster than children without these disabilities, according to findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).
Children’s wellbeing is not related to their families’ household incomes – but their perceptions of how much they have relative to their friends can have an unexpected effect. A new study from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education found that 11-year-olds who saw themselves as richer than their peers were […]
It is not moving home, but broader family circumstances that impact the wellbeing of children when they are in their early years, new research shows.
The latest version of the National Child Development Study: Activity Histories (1974-2013) has been released at the UK Data Archive.
There is just one month left to benefit from the reduced “early bird” registration for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies. This event is being held from 12 to 14 September 2006 at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Smoking during pregnancy and being overweight before becoming pregnant account for around 40 per cent of the social divide in childhood obesity rates.
Full-time working fathers earn a fifth more, on average, than men without children, according to a new study published by the Trade Unions Congress (TUC). In contrast, mothers working full-time experienced a ‘pay penalty’, earning 7 per cent less, on average, than their childless colleagues. The researchers from the Institute for Public Policy Research analysed […]
Private school pupils are more likely than their peers at comprehensives to have a lower body mass index (BMI) by the time they reach their early 40s. They also spend less time watching television and eat fewer take-away meals, according to new research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Obese boys from the least advantaged neighbourhoods are significantly less likely to lose weight over the course of primary school than their peers in better-off areas, according to new research.
Participating in organised sports and joining after school clubs can help to improve primary school children’s academic performance and social skills, new research shows.
The British Psychological Society’s Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions Award for 2016 has been awarded to Dr Praveetha Patalay.
Some groups of mixed ethnicity children experience an increase in behaviour problems as they are growing up, according to a new study.
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