Changing economic circumstances in childhood and their effects on subsequent educational and other outcomes
Working Paper No. 49
by Ian Plewis and Constantinos Kallis
The detrimental effects of poverty on children’s development are well established. However, it is the nature and size of the link between changes in family income and income related measures on the one hand and child outcomes on the other, particularly educational and behaviour outcomes, that form the essence of this report. The findings have been generated from sophisticated statistical analyses of three longitudinal datasets: the British Birth Cohort Study that started in 1970, the more recent Millennium Cohort Study that started in 2001 and the National Pupil Database – the administrative dataset generated from school records and pupils’ test scores.
August 2008
ISBN 978 1 84712 388 6
