Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Increasing access to parks and gardens may not be enough to help teenagers in urban areas get a healthy amount of sleep.
If a boy’s father is absent when he’s a child, he is more likely to become a father himself at a young age, a new study suggests
Children living in poverty in some rural areas have lower standards of reading than their counterparts in cities, a new analysis of pupil assessments has shown.
CLS staff to present papers and a data discovery workshop at the SLLS conference in Bielefeld, Germany 26-30 September 2011
A recent report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests parents’ marital status has ‘little or no additional impact on the child’s development’.
A new analysis of how people secure professional and managerial careers shows that family background remains just as important as it was three decades ago, relative to educational qualifications.
Parents, the family home, and children’s own attitudes and behaviours could all contribute towards reducing educational inequalities, a recent study shows.
A new set of reports from the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort study describe the realities of life for Scots children today.
The controversial practice of teaching primary pupils in ability ‘streams’ rather than traditional classes is much more prevalent than is generally thought, a new study suggests.
New research using MCS data suggests that certain factors – such as reading on a daily basis – can help to reduce the impact of these inequalities on cognitive development.
Children who are breastfed for four months or more are less likely to display behaviour problems at age 5, according to a new analysis of Millennium Cohort Study data.
IoE researchers find children from homes that experience persistent poverty are more likely to have their cognitive development affected than their peers in better off homes. However family instability is found to make no additional difference.
Friday April 29, 2011 is the closing date to submit abstracts for papers, symposia, posters and round tables for the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk