Working papers

Here you can search our series of working papers, dating back to 1983. These papers use data from our four cohort studies and cover a wide range of topics, from social inequalities and mobility, to physical health, education and cognitive development. Other papers in the series seek to improve the practice of longitudinal research. At the present time, we are only able to accept papers if at least one author is a member of the CLS research team. Some of the working papers below will subsequently have been published in peer-reviewed journals.

For more information about our working papers series, please email us at clsworkingpapers@ucl.ac.uk.

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Education, First Occupation and Later Occupational Attainment: Cross-Cohort Changes among Men and Women in Britain- CLS working paper 2009/4

Erzsebet Bukodi analyses cohort and gender differences in occupational attainment up to age 34 in the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohort studies, concluding that while the most important predictor of mobility chances is educational qualifications, the importance of education does not increase across the three cohorts, though there is a significant cohort effect, with the 1958 cohort having significantly different experiences from the other tow cohorts.

Keywords: NSHD, NCDS, BCCS70, 58 cohort, 70 cohort, gender, employment, social mobility, occupational mobility, social class.

Author: Erzsebet Bukodi
Date published: 17 December 2009
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Class Origins, Education and Occupational Attainment: Cross-cohort Changes among Men in Britain- CLS working paper 2009/3

Erzsebet Bukodi and John Goldthorpe analyse the occupational mobility of men in the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohort studies, concluding that while the most important predictor of mobility chances is educational qualifications, the importance of education does not increase across the three cohorts: class origins also have a significant effect on occupational mobility.

Keywords:  NSHD, 1946 birth cohort, NCDS, BCS70, 58 cohort, 70 cohort, education, employment, social mobility, occupational mobility, social class.

Author: Erzsebet Bukodi and John Goldthorpe
Date published: 10 December 2009
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Trends in the relative wage opportunities of women and men across three British generations- CLS working paper 2009/2

Jenny Neuberger, Diana Kuh and Heather Joshi use data from the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohort studies to examine cross-cohort trends in employment and earnings, using multivariate analyses of selection into employment, and producing estimates of women’s and men’s wage opportunities.

Keywords:  NSHD, 1946 birth cohort, NCDS, BCS70, 58 cohort, 70 cohort, education, employment, unemployment.

Author: Jenny Neuberger, Diana Kuh and Heather Joshi
Date published: 7 December 2009
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Combining Childrearing with Work: Do Maternal Employment Experiences Compromise Child Development- CLS working paper 2009/1

This CLS working paper examines whether various indicators of child cognition and behavioural development in later childhood and early adolescence, might be associated with: (1) hours of paid maternal work, and (indirectly) mother’s access to maternity leave; (2) the kinds of working conditions that mothers are likely to experience in the jobs they hold when they have small children; and (3) a broad indicator of the types of non-maternal care the children encounter during their early years.

It uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and the American 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79).

 

Author: Heather Joshi, Elizabeth Cooksey and Georgia Verropoulou
Date published: 1 December 2009
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Cross-national research using contemporary birth cohort studies – a look at early maternal employment in the United Kingdom and the United States- CLS working paper 2008/13

Danielle Crosby and Denise Hawkes look at factors associated with the timing of mothers’ post-birth employment in the UK and US, using models conditioned on prior employment and partner status.

The UK Millennium Cohort Study and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth are the two datasets used.

Keywords:  Millennium Cohort Study, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, education, employment, unemployment, fertility.

Author: Danielle Crosby and Denise Hawkes
Date published: 30 November 2008
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Educational attainment, labour market conditions and unobserved heterogeneity – the timing of first and higher-order births in Britain- CLS working paper 2008/12

Andrew Jenkins, Heather Joshi and Mark Killingsworth analyse the effects of women’s education and aggregate unemployment rates on fertility in Britain, using two cohorts who had different experiences of education: the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts (NCDS & BCS70).

Keywords:  British Cohort Study 1970, NCDS, education, employment, unemployment, fertility.

Author: Andrew Jenkins, Heather Joshi and Mark Killingsworth
Date published: 29 November 2008
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Ethnic minorities and non-response in the Millennium Cohort Study- CLS working paper 2008/11

Shirley Dex and Rachel Rosenberg look at predictors of mother’s responses and male partners’ responses in the first two sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), using logistic regression models and a multinomial combined response model.

Keywords:  Millennium Cohort Study, missingness, non-response, ethnicity.

Author: Shirley Dex and Rachel Rosenberg
Date published: 28 November 2008
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Missing Income data in the Millennium Cohort Study – evidence from the first two sweeps- CLS working paper 2008/10

Denise Hawkes & Ian Plewis look at income non-response in the first two sweeps of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), modelling attrition at MCS2 with household income and income response at MCS1 as predictors.

Key words:  Millennium Cohort Study, missingness, non-response, income.

Author: Denise Hawkes & Ian Plewis
Date published: 27 November 2008
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Economic Deprivation, Maternal Depression, Parenting and Children’s Cognitive and Emotional Development in Early Childhood- CLS working paper 2008/9

This CLS working paper uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother’s mental well-being are associated with children’s cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes play in mediating these factors.

Key words: Poverty; maternal depression; parenting; cognitive development; behaviour problems; Structural Equation Modelling

Author: Kathleen Kiernan and Carmen Huerta
Date published: 1 October 2008
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Does Mothers’ Employment Conflict with Child Development? Multilevel Analysis of British Mothers born in 1958- CLS working paper 2008/8

This CLS working paper explores the link between the cognitive and behavioural scores of school-aged children to mothers’ employment during pre-school years. The research uses data from the 1958 National Child Development Study.

Key words: child development, maternal employment, intergenerational transmission

Author: Georgia Verropoulou and Heather Joshi
Date published: 3 August 2008
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Family poverty assessed at three years old- CLS working paper 2008/7

This CLS working paper aims to estimate the prevalence of family poverty and the characteristics of poor families in the Age 3 Sweep (MCS2) of the Millennium Cohort Study. It also aims to explore the overlaps of the different measures of poverty and estimate the odds of a family being ‘reliably’ poor. Lastly, it focuses on how this poverty is associated with some outcomes in the MCS2 and explores how family poverty changed between Age 9 months Sweep (MCS1) and MCS2.

Author: Jonathan Bradshaw and John Holmes
Date published: 2 August 2008
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Antecedents of hazardous teenage drinking: analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study- CLS working paper 2008/6

This CLS working paper uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to explore antecendents of hazardous teenage drinking.

Author: Dr Andrew Percy and Prof Dorota Iwaniec
Date published: 1 August 2008
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