B273 - An ESRC Centre An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence - 01/11/2005

B number: 
B273
Principal applicant name: 
Prof Paul Gregg (University of Bristol, UK)
Co-applicants: 
Prof Simon Burgess (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Debbie A Lawlor (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Carol Propper (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol, UK), Prof George Davey Smith (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Fiona Steele (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Andy Ness (University of Bristol, UK), Dr Leon Feinstein (Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Prof Glyn Lewis (University of Bristol, UK), Prof Marcus Munafo (University of Bristol, UK)
Title of project: 
An ESRC Centre: An examination of the impact of family socio-economic status on outcomes in late childhood and adolescence.
Proposal summary: 

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.

Date proposal received: 
Tuesday, 1 November, 2005
Date proposal approved: 
Tuesday, 1 November, 2005
Keywords: 
Parenting
Primary keyword: