Our studies
Using data from three of our cohort studies, this project aims to understand how parents’ long-term financial position shapes their children’s outcomes from an early stage. This is 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 currently working on the initial findings for the most recent age 14 sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. She also works on the CLS Cross-Cohort Research Program (CCRP) investigating social mobility, focusing on parental wealth on children’s development and school curriculum on educational transitions. In addition, Vanessa co-coordinates the CLS cohort workshops and webinars.
Her research interests include using longitudinal and secondary data analysis to examine early life course on children’s and adult mental health, educational and socio-economic outcomes.
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 across all of its scientific and operational teams. Alissa is also Principal Investigator of the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), leading the team responsible for developing its content, design and analysis.
Alissa is an economist whose main research interests relate to inequality, poverty, education policy, and the intergenerational transmission of health 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 Department of Social Science and currently holds the posts of Research Director and Chief Statistician 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 with a primary interest in socio-economic, demographic and macrosocial/structural determinants of population health and the mechanisms that link these over the life course. He leads the Applied Statistical Methods programme at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and is PI on the ESRC funded Cross-Cohort Research Programme,investigating determinants of healthy behaviours and lifestyles and the intergenerational transmission of economic status over the life course.
The most recent of Britain's cohort studies, following over 19,000 children born in the UK in 2000.
Following the lives of 17,000 people born in a single week in 1958 in Great Britain.
Following the lives of 17,000 people born in a single week in 1970 in Great Britain.
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Our bibliography is a searchable database of published work based on our cohort studies. Search by keyword, author, date range and journal.
Data from our studies are mainly available through the UK Data Service. We run training to support researchers who are interested in using our studies in their work.
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