The forgotten fifth: Examining the early education trajectories of teenagers who fall below the expected standards in GCSE English language and maths examinations at age 16 – CLS Working Paper 2022/6

Investing in breastfeeding support may help reduce social inequalities

Breastfeeding matters for children’s cognitive development, but disadvantaged mothers who give birth at the weekend are less likely to breastfeed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support in hospitals, finds a new UCL study.

Long term associations of behavioural problems in early childhood

National primary school tests have little effect on children’s happiness and wellbeing

National Curriculum Key Stage 2 tests taken by 10- and 11-year-old children in England to assess progress in English and mathematics do not seem to affect children’s wellbeing, according to new research based on the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).

COVID-19 antibody test data from CLS studies now available

Researchers can now access new information on the presence of COVID-19 antibodies among more than 10,000 study members taking part in the four cohort studies run by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS).

Children with behavioural problems at age five may need extra literacy support at school

Children with severe conduct and hyperactivity problems at school entrance tend to gain lower scores in vocabulary tests during adolescence, according to a new study.

One in 11 males have carried or used a weapon at age 17

At age 17, 9% of males have carried or used a weapon, with one in four of those involved in this form of serious offending reporting they are gang members, according to UCL researchers.

Rachel Rosenberg

Rachel is responsible for managing data for the Millennium Cohort Study. A large part of her role involves writing complex syntax to perform data cleaning, manipulation and consistency checking, as well as derivation of variables. Rachel has 10 years of experience working with MCS data. Rachel has a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from […]

Wave 3 of COVID-19 survey data from five national longitudinal studies now available

Researchers can now access new information about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of almost 28,000 cohort study participants during the third national lockdown in February and March.

Research round-up – January to March 2021

Researchers from around the world have been using CLS study data to tackle important questions. Here is a round-up of over 70 new pieces of research that we’ve added to the CLS bibliography between January and March 2021.

Substance use and depression more closely linked for generation Z teens

Substance use and antisocial behaviour are more likely to go hand-in-hand with poor mental health for generation Z teens compared to millennial adolescents growing up a decade earlier, finds a new UCL study.

Being born small doesn’t tend to disadvantage IVF babies’ cognitive development

Children conceived through medically assisted reproduction who are born small do just as well in cognitive tests during childhood and adolescence as naturally conceived children who are born a normal weight, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.