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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New birth cohort study: theoretical sampling design options – CLS working paper 2020/4

This report sets out the rationale and sampling design options for a new UK birth cohort study, incorporating an accelerated longitudinal design.

Author: Alice Sullivan, Heather Joshi and James Williams
Date published: 27 April 2020
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Mixing modes in longitudinal surveys: an overview – CLS working paper 2020/3

This report gives an overview of the most relevant literature and evidence on the use mixed-mode involving web in longitudinal surveys.

Author: Matt Brown and Lisa Calderwood
Date published: 27 April 2020
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New technologies and innovative methods in data collection – CLS working paper 2020/2

This report looks at what major longitudinal studies have already done in terms of collecting data using new technologies and innovative methods, and explores the methodological challenges surrounding innovative data collection.

Author: Emily Gilbert
Date published: 27 April 2020
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Incentives in longitudinal studies – CLS working paper 2020/1

This paper reviews the literature on the effects of incentives in longitudinal studies.

Author: Erica Ryu Wong
Date published: 27 April 2020
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The index of local area relative disadvantage- A cross-country comparison- CLS working paper 2018/3

This paper proposes a measure of ecological disadvantage– the Index of Local Area Relative Disadvantage (ILARD) – for use in comparative cross-country research on neighbourhood effects.

Author: Anthony Buttaro Jr. & Ludovica Gambaro
Date published: 13 August 2018
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The impact of maternal employment on children’s weight: Evidence from the UK- CLS working paper 2018/2

In this paper, the researchers examine the effect of maternal employment during childhood on children’s weight.

Author: Emla Fitzsimons & Benedetta Pongiglione
Date published: 1 March 2018
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Father departure from the household and childhood mental health: how does timing matter?- CLS working paper 2018/1

In this working paper, the researchers employed a fixed effects method to estimate the effect of paternal departure from the household on children’s socio-emotional outcomes.

Author: Emla Fitzsimons & Aase Villadsen
Date published: 1 February 2018
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Is the future female? Educational and occupational aspirations of teenage boys and girls in the UK- CLS working paper 2017/17

In this paper, the researchers examine the educational expectations and occupational aspirations of contemporary teenagers in the UK, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study age 14 survey.

Author: Lucinda Platt and Sam Parsons
Date published: 13 December 2017
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Prevalence and trends in overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence- CLS working paper 2017/16

This working paper analyses objective data on BMI and overweight/obesity status among
adolescents aged 14 in 2015.

Author: Emla Fitzsimons and Benedetta Pongiglione
Date published: 12 December 2017
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Measuring young people’s physical activity using accelerometers in the UK Millennium Cohort Study- CLS working paper 2017/15

This paper presents the approach taken to the implementation of activity monitors on the main stage of the Millennium Cohort Study Age 14 Survey, and highlights a number of considerations for the implementation of objective physical activity data collection in large-scale face-to-face surveys.

Author: Emily Gilbert, Anne Conolly, Stephan Tietz, Lisa Calderwood and Nickie Rose
Date published: 29 November 2017
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The intergenerational transmission of vocabulary- CLS working paper 2017/14

This paper examines the relationship between parents’ and children’s vocabulary scores for a nationally representative birth cohort born in the UK – the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). We investigate both socio-economic and ethnic differentials in children’s vocabulary scores, and the role of differences in parents’ vocabulary scores in accounting for these.

Author: Alice Sullivan, Vanessa Moulton and Emla Fitzsimons
Date published: 23 November 2017
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Collecting Multiple Data Linkage Consents in a Mixed Mode Survey: Evidence and Lessons Learnt from Next Steps- CLS working paper 2017/13

Linking survey responses with administrative data is a promising practice to increase the range of research questions to be explored, at a limited interview burden, both for respondents and interviewers. This paper describes the protocol for asking consent to data linkage on nine different sources in a large-scale nationally representative survey of young adults in England: the Next Steps Age 25 Survey.

Author: Marie Thornby, Lisa Calderwood, Mehul Kotecha, Kelsey Beninger and Alessandra Gaia
Date published: 7 November 2017
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