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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.
Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience.
More than one in four UK youngsters are growing up in families facing multiple challenges such as parental depression and financial hardship that can have a damaging effect on children’s development, new research suggests.
Interviewing has begun for the age 11 survey of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). Over the course of the year, thousands of children and their families across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be visited for the fifth time.
Parents’ individual choices to send children to single-sex or co-ed schools may lead to undesirable social outcomes, Dr Alice Sullivan has told the BBC.
CLS’s new website helps researchers, cohort members, policymakers and others access information about the 1958, 1970 and millennium cohort studies.
There are more girls than boys in the top 10 per cent of the ability range at age 5, a new Millennium Cohort Study analysis has found
The children of high earners start school five months ahead of pupils from low and middle-income homes, according to new research based on the Millennium Cohort Study.
The 2011 CLS Masters dissertation prize has been awarded to Sarah Godwin for her study on the relationship between occupational aspirations and psychological problems among children from disadvantaged backgrounds
The census is “a treasure trove of evidence about the social fabric of Britain” Professor Heather Joshi tells the House of Commons science committee.
The MRC Unit for Lifelong Healthy Aging (LHA) will be holding a series of workshops on the MRC National Survey for Health and Development (NSHD). The NSHD is the longest running birth cohort in Britain and celebrated its 65th birthday in March 2011.
August-born teenagers are 20 per cent less likely to win a place at a top UK university than those born in September, a new study has found.
Aspirations and emotional and behavioural problems in primary school aged children
The risk of slipping down the earnings ladder has increased for the less educated and those living outside London, a new study suggests
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