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Using data from three of our cohort studies, this project aimed to understand how parents’ long-term financial position shapes their children’s outcomes from an early stage. This was part of the Cross Cohort Research Programme.
| Project title | Parental wealth in childhood and its relationship with children’s development and predictors of wealth in adult life |
|---|---|
| Project leads | Vanessa Moulton Bilal Nasim |
| Themes | Employment, income and wealth Family and social networks Housing and local environment Poverty Social mobility |
| Dates | 1 October 2015 – December 2018 |
| Funder | ESRC |
| Summary |
The research team gave a project update to the Resolution Foundation, Equality Trust, Social Mobility Commission, Save the Children and others at an impact workshop.
In November 2017, the research team presented findings from this project at the CLOSER conference, Inequalities: a longitudinal perspective.
Phone: 020 7612 6288
Email: vanessa.moulton@ucl.ac.uk
Vanessa is a psychologist, with a strong interest in multidisciplinary social science. Her research interests include using longitudinal and secondary data analysis to examine the influence of the earlier life course on children’s and adult mental health, cognitive, educational and socio-economic outcomes. In addition, Vanessa co-coordinates the CLS cohort training workshops and webinars.
View Bilal’s biography on the Institute of Education website here.
Email: l.gambaro@ucl.ac.uk
Ludovica worked in CLS from 2013 to 2016, mainly on the Millennium Cohort Study and she continues to collaborate with researchers in CLS.
Her main areas of interest are inequalities in child development, early childhood education and care services, residential mobility.
Phone: 020 7612 6231
Email: alissa.goodman@ucl.ac.uk
Alissa is Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, leading the work of the Centre, with a particular focus on its scientific direction and external engagement. Alissa is also Co-Director of the new Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study, with overall responsibility for its scientific design and delivery, and is on the leadership team of the new Children of the 2020s Study.
Alissa is an economist whose main research interests relate to inequality, poverty, education policy, and the intergenerational transmission of income and well-being. In her previous employment, she served as deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Phone: 020 7612 6107
Email: g.ploubidis@ucl.ac.uk
George is Professor of Population Health and Statistics at the UCL Social Research Institute and currently holds the posts of Research Director and Principal Investigator of the National Child Development Study and 1970 British Cohort Study at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies. Prior to joining UCL he held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge. George is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.
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