B273 - An ESRC Centre An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence - 01/11/2005
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 study the pathways by which socio-economic status of parents affects outcomes for their children. These pathways
include the role of peer groups, friendships and neighbourhoods; schools; psychological motivations; parental mental
health; family (mal)functioning and parental behaviours early in children's lives.
To compare the development of current adolescents in the UK with their US counterparts and those in the UK of earlier
generations.
To undertake methodological innovation in the analysis of large scale survey data, including the estimation of nonnested
hierarchial data; the analysis of the impact of missing data and the use of imputation techniques; and the
exploration of the use of biomedical, including genetic, information as instruments for observed outcomes in early/middle
childhood.
To disseminate our research to the academic community in a wide range of disciplines; to inform policy makers and aid
the development of information based policy in the fields of child and adolescent development, family, educational and
neighbourhood policy; and to achieve a step change in the usage of the unique Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and
Children (ALSPAC) data resource within the social science community in the UK and overseas.