Our studies
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.
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
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.
This CLS working paper uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to explore antecendents of hazardous teenage drinking.
This CLS working paper explores the optimal modelling of hearing
impairment in middle age in relation to hearing in childhood as measured by audiograms. It uses data from the 1958 National Child Development Study.
This CLS working paper investigates some differences in the sociodemographic profile of Rural and Urban England taking evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study, and the ONS Longitudinal Study spanning 4 censuses since 1971.
This CLS working paper examines the impact of single-sex schooling on a range of academic outcomes for a sample of British people born in 1958. In terms of the overall level of qualifications achieved, it finds that single-sex schooling is positive for girls at age 16, but neutral for boys, while at later ages, single-sex schooling is neutral for both sexes. It also finds that single-sex schooling is linked to the attainment of qualifications in gender-atypical subject areas for both sexes, not just during the school years, but also later in life.
The paper uses data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS).
This CLS working paper investigates the influence of two distinct family attributes on children’s test scores in reading and mathematics. One is the family’s resources – its income level,
the parents’ education levels, own ability in reading and math, among others. The strong, well-documented relationship of family resources to children’s cognitive skills is confirmed in the two British data sets analyzed here. The other attribute is the parents’ “caring” for the child, the family’s habits regarding nurturing the children, the inclination to sacrifice in behalf of the children or to expend time and effort with the children. Measured by several behaviors during the pregnancy and the child’s early years, the study shows that these family habits of caring for their child are also strongly correlated with the child’s test scores in both reading and math, controlling
for the family’s resources.
This CLS working paper aims to examine the comparability of the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS), in terms of the information they provide about the employment profile of their respective samples. It also aims to describe changes in occupational segregation in England and Wales between 1991 and 2000/01.
This CLS working paper investigates the effects of a range of time-varying fertility indicators, including pregnancy, and the presence and characteristics of children, on the outcomes of nonmarital unions for two cohorts of British women. The study uses data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70).
Key words: Cohabitation, partnership dissolution, fertility, competing risks, multilevel modelling, simultaneous equation modelling
This CLS working paper provides a comparison of the drinking patterns of members of the 1958 National Child Development Study at Age 33 and members of the 1970 British Cohort Study at age 34. It focuses on the relationships between social class, gender and drinking behaviour and how these may have changed over time.
This CLS working paper analyses the classification of qualifications in social surveys. It uses research that has been conducted uses the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
This CLS working paper describes the preliminary results from an analysis of a sample of essays written by cohort members of the 1058 National Child Development Study (NCDS) at Age 11. The essays are focused on the topic, ‘Imagine you are twenty-five…’ and potentially provide insights into the cohort members’ understanding of adult work roles and family relationships, their views on gender roles, and the ways in which social inequalities are reproduced over time.
Find the latest developments and insights from across all our longitudinal studies.
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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