RMF2012 Abstracts

Session: Tuesday 3rd July PM (14.15 - 15.30)

Title: Using Cohort Studies

Name: Dick Wiggins

Affiliation: Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education

Abstract Details

This session will provide an opportunity to foreground the contribution that the British Cohort Studies have made to our understanding population change, poverty and parenting in modern Britain. The presentations will each foreground substantive questions around parenting in the context of applying quantitative analysis for policy research and managing cohort study data. The papers will focus on the postponement of parenting, the mediating role of parenting in the context of the inter-relationship between poverty and children's early educational attainment and the relationship between parents's skills and children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

Presentation downloads

Presenter: Ann Berrington

Understanding the postponement of parenthood to later ages

Presenter: Augustin De coulon

Parents' basic skills and children's test scores

Presenter: Kathleen Kiernan

What matters for well-being in early childhood: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

The level of the session is: Accessible

Presentation details

Presenter 1

Start time: 14:15

Presentation title: Understanding the postponement of parenthood to later ages in Britain

Author: Professor Ann Berrington

Affiliation: ESRC centre for Population Change, University of Southampton

Presenter 2

Start time: 14:40

Presentation title: Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment: the mediating role of parenting

Author: Professor Kathleen Kiernan

Affiliation: Social Policy and Social Work, University of York

Presenter 3

Start time: 15:05

Presentation title: Parents' skills and children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes

Author: Professor Anna Vignoles

Affiliation: Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London