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Poorer teens at substantially greater risk of obesity

17 December 2020

More than one third of UK teenagers are starting adult life with excess weight (either overweight or obese), and rates are even higher among the poorest, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. 

Physical health

The relationship between A-level subject choice and league table score of university attended: the ‘facilitating’, the ‘less suitable’ and the counter-intuitive- CLS working paper 2017/7

14 August 2017

Inequalities and the curriculum – young people’s views on choice and fairness through their experiences of curriculum as examination specifications at GCSE- CLS working paper 2017/6

31 July 2017

Inequalities and the curriculum – philosophical debates on the curriculum and social justice- CLS working paper 2017/5

31 July 2017

Working at a different level? Curriculum differentiation in Irish lower secondary education- CLS working paper 2017/4

31 July 2017

Inequalities in school leavers’ labour market outcomes- CLS working paper 2017/3

31 July 2017

Social Class, Gender and Ethnic Differences in Subjects Taken at Age 14- CLS working paper 2016/6

31 July 2017

Vocabulary from adolescence to middle-age- CLS working paper 2014/7

30 July 2017

Non-cognitive skills: What are they and how can they be measured by the British cohort studies?- CLS working paper 2014/6

30 July 2017

Allocating pupils to their nearest secondary school – the consequences for social and ability stratification- CLS working paper 2006/3

30 July 2017

Understanding Participation: Being part of the 1958 National Child Development Study from birth to age 50- CLS working paper 2010/5

30 July 2017

Consent to linkage to child health data in MCS- CLS working paper 2013/13

27 July 2017

An integrated approach to the design and analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS)- CLS working paper 1992/1

27 June 2017

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