An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Economics
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- All-Party Group on Social Science and Policy (Collaboration)
- Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) (Collaboration)
- Princes Trust (Collaboration)
- Audit Commission (Collaboration)
- Russell Group (Collaboration)
- Research Councils UK (RCUK) (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
Publications
Steele F
(2008)
Multilevel Models for Longitudinal Data
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Nicholas Crafts (Author)
(2008)
Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes : a decomposition analysis
Gutman Leslie Morrison
(2008)
Children's Well-being in Primary School: Pupil and School Effects
Burgess S
(2008)
Maternity rights and mothers' return to work
in Labour Economics
Stelios Michalopoulos (Author)
(2008)
Studying "every child matters" outcomes : a scoping study"
Han WJ
(2008)
The timing of mothers' employment after childbirth.
in Monthly labor review
Macleod J
(2008)
Parental drug use, early adversities, later childhood problems and children's use of tobacco and alcohol at age 10: birth cohort study.
in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Lawlor DA
(2008)
Is Mendelian randomization 'lost in translation?': comments on 'Mendelian randomization equals instrumental variable analysis with genetic instruments' by Wehby et al.
in Statistics in medicine
Howe LD
(2009)
Accuracy of height and weight data from child health records.
in Archives of disease in childhood
Waylen A
(2009)
Romantic and Sexual Behavior in Young Adolescents: Repeated Surveys in a Population-Based Cohort
in The Journal of Early Adolescence
| Description | Advanced Quantitative Methods in Health and Social Science and Health |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fiona Steele is co-ordinating the ?Advanced Quantitative Methods in Health and Social Science and Health? +3 pathway in the new South West Doctoral Training Centre. This pathway arose from collaborations established on IFSOCCA and has attracted 4 quantitative methods studentships per year. Clarke, Steele, Tilling and Windmeijer (all from the Methods strand) will all be module leaders. |
| Description | Funding for higher education |
| Organisation | Russell Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Advice to Russell Group on funding for HE |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Social mobility |
| Organisation | Research Councils UK (RCUK) |
| Department | Ministry for Universities and Skills |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | January 2010 Meeting with Ministry for Universities and Skills to discuss social mobility. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Social mobility - challenges for policy makers |
| Organisation | All-Party Group on Social Science and Policy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Consultancy for All Party Group for Social Science and Policy |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Social mobilty |
| Organisation | Princes Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Advised the Princes Trust, who are organising a Parliamentary series of briefings on Social mobility. 15-Jun-11. http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/integration/policy_newsflash/social_mobility.aspx |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | The impact of cutting expenditure on schools |
| Organisation | Audit Commission |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Meeting with Nico Jabin of the Audit Commission on 14 January 2011 to talk about the impact of cutting expenditure on schools. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Youth unemployment |
| Organisation | Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) |
| Department | Commission on Youth Unemployment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Consultancy for the Commission on Youth Unemployment launched by David Milliband |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | 'Growing up in New Zealand' national birth cohort study, Auckland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Inaugural address for the official launch of study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | 'Impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in childhood and adolescence' research agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation made to Stephen Williams MP on the research agenda of the 'Impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in childhood and adolescence' (IFSSOCA) project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | ALSPAC data and mothers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Public Health Group, Colombia University, New York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Alcohol use and conduct disorders and plans for future research in ALSPAC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | 'Alcohol use and problems in ALSPAC' Workshop, Bristol. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Alcohol use in adolescence : harms and advice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Institute of Health and Social Care, University of Cardiff: 31 Jan 2012 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Antenatal prediction of poor maternal and child outcomes : implications for selection into intensive parenting support programs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Research and Evaluation Unit Seminar Series, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 27 April 2012. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Binary mediation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | ICLS Seminar, University College London, 19 January 2011 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Character and Resilience Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility, "Character and Resilience Summit", Admiralty House. Contributed to policy discussion with MPs and other stakeholders. Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Child height, health and human capital : evidence using genetic markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of University of Bradford Division of Economics Seminar Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Child height, health and human capital : evidence using genetic markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | University of York internal seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Child height, health and human capital : evidence using genetic markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at London Health Economics Group Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Childhood mental health problems and youth educational attainment in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Professor Washbrook of Bristol University presented this CPRC special brown bag seminar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://cupop.columbia.edu/cprc-brown-bag-seminar-november-11 |
| Description | Consequences of family disruption on children's educational outcomes in Norway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of Bocconi University Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Data linkage / markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given as part of a series within 'Impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in childhood & adolescence' (IFSSOCA) at the University of Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ifssoca/outputs/seminars.html |
| Description | Determinants of childhood growth and adiposity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Disability payments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio 4 - More or Less on 12/08/2011. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Does tracking make a difference? : a multination study of socio-economic inequality in high school choices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at 6th PATHWAYS Workshop, University of Michigan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Does when you are born matter? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | ESRC Festival of Social Science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Early Years Action Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with Frank Field for his Early Years Action Group Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Early years child development and social mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social Mobility has become a major political discussion point in recent years, here Professor Jane Waldfogel from Columbia University, New York, a leading expert on early years child development, discuss the importance of the early years of childhood for life chances and the evidence that policy intervention can make a difference to poor children's development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/audio/jane.html |
| Description | Early, late or never : when does parental education impact child outcomes? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented Seminar 2 at NIESR Employment Seminar Series. 04-Oct-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Early, late or never? : when does parental education impact child outcomes? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | We study the intergenerational effects of parents_ education on their children_s educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the shock to education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England - allows us to examine the timing of impacts throughout the child_s life, from pre-school assessments through the school years to the final exams at the end of the compulsory schooling period. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children_s outcomes that is evident at age 5 and continues to be visible up to and including the high stakes exams taken at age 16. Children of parents affected by the reform gain results approximately 0.1 standard deviations higher than those whose parents were not impacted. Focusing on the lower educated parents where we would expect there to be more of an impact, the effect is indeed larger: children of these parents gaining results approximately 0.2 standard deviations higher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Early, late or never? : when does parental education impact child outcomes? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the shock to education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales. Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England - allows us to examine the timing of impacts throughout the child's life, from pre-school assessments through the school years to the final exams at the end of the compulsory schooling period. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 5 and continues to be visible up to and including the high stakes exams taken at age 16. Children of parents affected by the reform gain results approximately 0.1 standard deviations higher than those whose parents were not impacted. Focusing on the lower educated parents where we would expect there to be more of an impact, the effect is indeed larger: children of these parents gaining results approximately 0.2 standard deviations higher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Early, late or never? : when does parental education impact child outcomes? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of CMPO seminar series 01/12/11 in Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Early, late or never? : when does parental education impact child outcomes? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Centre for Employment Research, University of Westminster |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Ensuring fair access to the professions : driving social mobility to deliver careers for young people |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Westminster briefing at 10 Downing Street (Westminster briefings are policy-specific events aimed at providing a forum for practitioners, local policymakers and civil servants to debate key issues with leading figures from within Westminster, Whitehall and local government). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.westminster-briefing.com/?page_id=1348 |
| Description | Epidemiology of substance use : the development of substance misuse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Estimating structural mean models with multiple instruments using generalised method of moments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at RSS Avon Local Group Meeting, 10 May 2011, University of Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Estimating structural mean models with multiple instruments using generalised method of moments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | We show how Structural Mean Models (SMM), used for the estimation of causal effects in the presence of confounding, can be estimated by the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimator. It is then straightforward to apply the GMM estimator to additive, multiplicative and logistic SMMs with multivalued and/or multiple instruments using standard software, like Stata and R. The GMM estimator produces efficient projections of the instruments and correct asymptotic inference. The validity of the SMM model assumptions can further be tested using the standard Hansen J-test. We apply the GMM estimator to determine the causal effect of adiposity on hypertension, using the genetic markers FTO and MC4R as instruments for adiposity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Estimation and testing of structural mean models with multiple instruments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Mental Health Research Network, Methodology Group, Kings College London, 7 Feb 2012 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Estimation problems : evidence synthesis as a potential alternative approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Evaluating school effectiveness using large scale administrative data sets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The use of quantitative data to evaluate the academic performance of schools is long standing in the UK. In particular, in England large scale administrative data sets are used systematically to judge the relative performance of primary and secondary schools. Such data are then used to produce 'league table' information on school effectiveness. Large scale administrative data is not without its problems and there are a number of problems with school league tables. The Institute of Education has been conducting a long term study of how administrative data might be best used to judge school performance and the problems this poses. Professor Anna Vignoles is a Professor in the Economics of Education at the Institute Of Education and a Deputy Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education. She has published widely on the importance of mathematics in the labour market and the value of numeracy and STEM subjects. Anna is a Co-Director of an ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Node, ADMIN (Administrative Data - Methods, Inference and Network) which is investigating the use of large scale administrative data in policy research. ADMIN is also developing methodologies to best exploit linkages between survey data and administrative data sets. Her research interests include issues pertaining to equity in education, school choice, school efficiency and finance and the economic value of schooling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Evidence synthesis and drugs harm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Drugs Science Strategy and Statistics workshop, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Family background and child outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to HM Treasury. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Genetic markers as instrumental variables |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a workshop: 'Showcasing ALSPAC as a resource for social and health researchers'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac-social-sciences/workshops |
| Description | Genetic markers as instrumental variables : an application to child fat mass and academic achievement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | First Australasian workshop on econometrics and health economics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/centres/che/more-seminars.html |
| Description | Genetic markers as instrumental variables : an application to child fat mass and academic achievement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conference on Empirical Health Economics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Genetic markers as instruments for obesity and hypertension : a GMM approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Explanations of risk factors and conditions such as obesity and hypertension increasingly combine social, economic and genetic predictors. Estimation in such a complex setting throws up novel challenges, quite separate from collecting and managing data from such diverse provenance. Instrumental variable estimation is found to be increasingly useful when a limited number of genetic markers (single nucleotide polymorphisms) is involved. Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimation is the next step in attempts to provide sound explanations when multiple genetic markers are included. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Gestational weight gain in a UK cohort : patterns, risk factors and associations with later mother and offspring health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a workshop: 'Showcasing ALSPAC as a resource for social and health researchers'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac-social-sciences/workshops/lawlorrss.ppt |
| Description | Higher education across anglophone countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented to The Sutton Trust |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | How effectively did New Labour address the challenges of social mobility and inequality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Professor Paul Gregg presented at the 'Progressive dilemmas : New Labour in power' event which was held at Church House, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Identification and estimation of local treatment effects through IV estimation of binary outcome structural mean models |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at seminar on Mixing econometrics and epidemiology, Imperial College London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Instrumental variable estimation for binary outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at joint meeting of RSS General Applications and Social Statistics sections 'Causality in statistical investigations'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.rss.org.uk/rssadmin/uploads/1260695_PC%20RSSpresentation%20upload.pdf |
| Description | Instrumental variables estimation in nonlinear models |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at Impact of Family Socio-economic Status on Outcomes in Childhood & Adolescence sminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Intergenerational mobility in UK, life chances and the role of inequality and education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Econometrics Seminar joint with Economic Theory Seminar at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Louvain |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Intergenerational mobility in UK, life chances and the role of inequality and education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Economics Research Seminar Series Semester 1, 2011-12. 24-Nov-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Intergenerational mobility in UK, life chances and the role of inequality and education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented to Manchester Statistical Society. 08-Nov-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Is there an income gradient in child mental health : the importance of reporting heterogeneity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Professor Carol Propper gave the keynote speech at this annual workshop on 'Mental health and wellbeing'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/The%20Mental%20Health%20Workshop%206th%20December%2020... |
| Description | Is there an income gradient in child mental health : the importance of reporting heterogeneity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Professor Carol Propper gave the keynote speech at this annual workshop on 'Mental health and wellbeing'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/The%20Mental%20Health%20Workshop%206th%20December%2020... |
| Description | Left-handedness and cognitive development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Carol Propper discusses work she and colleagues have done investigating whether lefthandedness in children is associated with differential cognitive development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/audio/propperleft.html |
| Description | Mendelian randomisation : where did it come from? : what is it? : why is it useful? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Mendelian randomisation is a method for causal inference in observational studies in which genetic variants reliably associated with the modifiable risk factor of interest are used to assess the causal effect of the risk factor. One of the earliest proponents of this method was M Katan, who in a 1986 letter to the Lancet suggested that if cholesterol levels were truly causally related to increased cancer risk then one would expect associations of genetic variants known to affect cholesterol to be related to cancer risk. With the advent of genome-wide sequencing, the use of Mendelian randomisation studies for causal inference has increased considerably in the last 10 years. The statistical approach for Mendelian randomization studies is an instrumental variables analysis, where the genetic variant is the instrumental variable. In this introductory talk, I will define Mendelian randomisation, illustrate how it relates to instrumental variables analysis and discuss why genetic variants are less likely than other (non-genetic) variables to violate the assumptions of instrumental variables analyses; some examples of how this approach has been used in epidemiology will be presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Missing data : issues and extensions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at 'Handling missing data' seminar of the Avon Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Multilevel event history analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Feb 2010 - Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Multilevel event history analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Nov 2008 - Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, New Haven, CT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Multiple imputation : handling interactions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Medical Section meeting: 'Analysis of partially observed datasets : putting methodology into practice'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://missingdata.lshtm.ac.uk/rss2010_03_30.html |
| Description | Newsnight |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Draws on work by Macmillan used in the Milburn Report "Unleashing Aspiration. The final report of the Panel for Fair Access to the Professions" (2009) - Newsnight BBC2 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Nick Clegg's pupil premium won't fix social mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The problems that lead to a lack of educational achievement lie in a child's background and environment, not in school funding The Guardian |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/anna-vignoles |
| Description | Old school ties : an analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented by Marcela Umana Aponte at CMPO Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Peer effects in childhood obesity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This paper examines the existence of peer effects in child Body Mass Index (BMI), using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). We define peer groups as children in the same school-year and of the same gender. We examine the endogeneity of peers in four ways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/businessschool/healthcaremanagement/ev... |
| Description | Pharmacological treatments for tobacco dependence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at International Summer School of Neuroscience (2009), Catania, Italy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Pregnancy changes and future risk of cardiovascular disease in mothers and their offspring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Prevalence and clustering of adolescent risk behaviours in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | DECIPHER Multiple Risk Behaviour symposium, Bristol. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Public policies and women's employment after childbearing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of the Applied Economics and Econometrics Centre's seminar series, University of Mannheim. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://pigorsch.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/2248.0.html |
| Description | Reducing child poverty : tips for the U.S. from across the pond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This Spotlight audio conference featured two experts on the United Kingdom's successful child poverty reduction efforts, even during the recession. With child poverty on the rise since 2000 in the U.S., these experts provided U.S. poverty advocates with lessons learned after the U.K. government pledged in 1999 to cut child poverty in half by 2010. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Research evidence in public policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Article in MethodNews newsletter from the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/1771/1/MethodsNews_Spring2011.pdf |
| Description | School ties : an analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed on Radio regarding CMPO WP 11/267 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | School ties : an analysis of homophily in an adolescent friendship network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed on Radio regarding CMPO WP 11/267. 06-Sep-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Simultaneous estimation of reciprocal parent-child and sibling effects using multilevel modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Royal Statistical Society 1-day meeting, London, 8 Feb |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Social mobility and higher education admissions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Social mobility and the professions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Work cited as 'crucial piece of evidence' for reform of internship practices within the professions at Launch of Professions for Good and the Common Best Practice Code for High Quality Internships |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Social mobility and the professions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lindsey MacMillan discusses her paper 'Social Mobility and the Professions', a submission to The Panel for Fair Access to the Professions, with Romesh Vaitilingam, regarding the many changes in mobility across time in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/audio/macmillan.html |
| Description | Social science & bad behaviour : the causes, the consequences and the solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Social Science week event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity and related disorders in childhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Inequalities in childhood and adolescent health workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Socioeconomic postion and the trajectories of growth and adiposity across childhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given as part of a series within 'Impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in childhood & adolescence' (IFSSOCA) at the University of Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ifssoca/outputs/seminars.html |
| Description | Statistical estimation for a randomised controlled trial of dialectical behaviour therapy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Feb 2012, Mental Health Research Network, Methodology Group, Kings College London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | The choice between fixed and random effects models : some considerations for educational research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at event titled 'Multilevel modelling: methods and applications', 11 May 2011, Nuffield Foundation, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The choice between fixed and random effects models : some considerations for educational research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Department of Quantitative Social Science, IOE seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The development of SES gradients in skills during the school years : comparing ALSPAC with a US cohort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The US and the UK are countries characterized by relatively high levels of income inequality and low levels of social mobility. It is well known that children from disadvantaged families enter formal schooling with substantially lower cognitive and social capabilities than their better-off peers in both countries. However, much less is known about whether the public education system reinforces or narrows these disparities as children grow into adolescence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac-social-sciences/workshops |
| Description | The development of comparative analyses of children and families in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Columbia University, New York. 13-Jun-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The effect of child weight on academic performance : evidence using genetic markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given during the 18th European workshop on econometrics and health economics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/documents/ew/Ew18prg.pdf |
| Description | The effect of child weight on academic performance : evidence using genetic markers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the 18th European workshop on econometrics and health economics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/documents/ew/Ew18prg.pdf |
| Description | The great divide : fixed vs. random effects in an education context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | PLASC/NPD Users' Group workshop, Bristol University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The intergenerational transmission of worklessness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was part of an annual summer school (entitled 'Inequality and social change') organised by Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Manchester University as part of the 'Social change : a Harvard - Manchester initiative' (SCHMi). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/manchester/workshop2009/workshop_all.doc |
| Description | The intergenerational transmission of worklessness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar given as part of the Work Pensions and Labour Economics conference 2009 (WPEG2009). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://wpeg.group.shef.ac.uk/WPEG2009%20programme%20linked.htm |
| Description | The intergenerational transmission of worklessness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Summer workshop on inequality and social change in Britain and the U.S. Manchester Initiative Summer School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/manchester/weekone.htm |
| Description | The intergenerational transmission of worklessness in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at CASE-DWP welfare and policy analysis seminar at LSE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The role of schools in determining HE participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented to Teach First |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The socio-economic gradient in teenagers' literacy skills : how does England compare to other countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Institute of Education, University of London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The socio-economic gradient in teenagers' literacy skills : how does England compare to other countries? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at 'Adolescence in the 21st century - Current debates in Finland and the UK' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The use (and misuse) of statistics in understanding social mobility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Social mobility has emerged as one of the key academic and political topics in Britain over the last decade. Although economists and sociologists disagree on whether mobility has increased or decreased, and if this is a bigger issue in the UK than other developed countries, both groups recognise that education and skill plays a key role in explaining intergenerational persistence. This has led academics from various disciplines to investigate how rates of cognitive development may vary between children from rich and poor backgrounds. A number of key studies in this area have reached one particularly striking (and concerning) conclusion that highly able children from disadvantaged homes are overtaken by their rich (but less able) peers before the age of 10 in terms of their cognitive skill. This has become a widely cited "fact" within the academic literature on social mobility and child development, and has had a major influence on public policy and political debate. In this paper, we show that this finding is due to a miss-interpretation of the data, and is largely a spurious statistical artefact caused by regression to the mean. As such, we break with conventional wisdom and the existing literature by suggesting that "bright" children from poor homes do not get overtaken by their rich but less able peers during the early school years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | The use (and misuse) of statistics in understanding social mobility : an application to the cognitive development of high ability children from disadvantaged homes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at Southampton University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Understanding change and stability in children's development in early and middle childhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of University of Exeter Graduate School of Education seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Understanding how and why maternal education matters for child outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of Department of Quantitative Social Science seminar series, Institute of Education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | University access for socio-economically disadvantaged children : a comparison across Anglo-phone countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Using the ALSPAC 'Blitz' to assess non-response bias |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at Stephenson House, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Who has special educational needs, and how well do they perform at school? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | CMPO seminar in Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Young people's understandings of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar Series at BIPA University of Bristol. 02-Jun-11 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Youth unemployment in Essex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Essex Radio, 15/02/2012 around 8.50am. Radio Interview regarding Miliband Commission on Youth Unemployment report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |