Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Nearly four in every ten children born at the turn of the century lived through at least one change in their parents’ relationship status in their first 11 years – up from just one in ten in 1969, a new study finds.
It is not moving home, but broader family circumstances that impact the wellbeing of children when they are in their early years, new research shows.
Teens from ethnic minority backgrounds and deprived neighbourhoods were particularly at risk of being exposed to high levels of air pollution during childhood, with potential long-term impacts on their health.
People who exercise regularly are more likely to be satisfied with their lives, according to a new study.
Evidence from the 1958, 1970 and millennium cohort studies has underpinned the Government’s Child Obesity Strategy, released today.
The educational expectations of Indian pupils in England are considerably greater than those of white pupils at age 16, according to new research.
Children from some ethnic minority groups are most likely to aspire to university and aim for well-paid jobs, a new study has found.
White children are losing their early lead over ethnic minority youngsters in English language during the first two years of primary school, a UK-wide study has found. By age 7, ethnic minority children read English at least as well as white pupils, say researchers at the Institute of Education, University of London. The best readers, […]
The next seminar in the CLS/UK Longitudinal Studies Centre Joint Methods Seminar Series is on Wednesday, April 29, at 1pm at the University of Essex. It will feature two short talks on ethnic minorities and non-response by by Professor Shirley Dex of CLS and Dr Jon Burton of the Institute of Social and Economic Research.
CLS organised four workshops in local schools last week as part of ESRC’s Social Science Week.
Briefings draw on evidence from cohort studies to show how education, health, parenting and poverty influence social mobility.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has launched a review of the longitudinal studies it funds, to be carried out from 2016-18.
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