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An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence.

  • Start date: 01 April 2007
  • End date: 31 March 2012

This project seeks to bring together a team derived from medical, psychiatric and social science backgrounds to explore the wealth of medical, behavioural, educational and socio-economic data being generated for a birth cohort of school age children. Our primary focus is the behaviours and outcomes of individuals in late childhood and adolescence, including their physical and mental health, risky behaviours, school performance.

Our aims are to:

  • To chart the relationship of these outcomes with socio-economic status of the family of origin of a large population based sample of young people currently living in the UK.
  • To understand the complementarities between different aspects of children’s and adolescent’s lives at one point of time and across time, examining lives from birth to adolescence.
  • To examine the antecedence of these outcomes in earlier children outcome measures and study the pathways by which socio-economic status of parents affects outcomes for their children.
  • To undertake methodological innovation in the analysis of large scale survey data.

The research will primarily focus on analysis of the ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) data, which is a rich set of data has been collected from children (and their parents) at high frequencies.


Further information

Contact: Prof Paul Gregg

ESRC contact: Heath Bampton

Payback time

Author: Matt Dickson Date: 27 July 2012 Other publication/report

Grant holder

Professor Paul Gregg

Programme name

None

Co - applicants

Professor Glyn Lewis

Professor Simon Burgess

Professor Carol Propper

Dr Fiona Steele

Dr Leon Feinstein

Professor Andrew Ness

Professor Marcus Munafo

Professor Deborah Lawlor

Professor George DaveySmith

Professor Frank Windmeijer

Carol Propper

Professor Fiona Steele

Professor Jonathan Sterne

Grant amount

£3,604,228.05

Grant reference

RES-060-23-0011

Institution

University of Bristol

Discipline

Economics

Grant type

Research Grant