Historical records and the research databases of completed studies have the potential either to establish new research studies or to inform follow-up studies assessing long-term health and social outcomes.
Andy Boyd +3 more
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History of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children , c.1980-2000 [PDF]
Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 24 May 2011. Introduction by Professor David Gordon, World Federation for Medical Education.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 24 May 2011.
Overy, C, Reynolds, LA, Tansey, EM
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Investigating whether adverse prenatal and perinatal events are associated with non-clinical psychotic symptoms at age 12 years in the ALSPAC birth cohort [PDF]
Background. Non-clinical psychosis-like symptoms (PLIKS) occur in about 15% of the population. It is not clear whether adverse events during early development alter the risk of developing PLIKS.
A. Thompson +16 more
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Background Studies have shown that a mother's history of childhood maltreatment is associated with her child's experience of internalising and externalising difficulties. Aims To characterise the mediating pathways that underpin this association.
D. Plant +3 more
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Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health [PDF]
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the incidence of asthma might also explain ...
Carol Propper, John A. Rigg
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The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Child Development in the UK [PDF]
This paper uses data from the ALSPAC cohort of 12000 births to explore the effects of early maternal employment on child cognitive and behavioural outcomes.
Elizabeth Washbrook, Paul Gregg
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Parenting behaviours and children's development from infancy to early childhood: Changes, continuities, and contributions [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 22] [PDF]
This study investigated how children and parenting behaviours change from infancy to early childhood, how parenting influences concurrent and future child development, and whether parenting itself is affected by and responsive to child development.
Feinstein, Leon, Gutman, Leslie
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Family Income and Education in the Next Generation: Exploring income gradients in education for current cohorts of youth [PDF]
The relationship between the incomes of the family a child is growing up in and the education level the child obtains has been of great interest to researchers for a number of reasons. Firstly, this gives us a measure of educational inequality in its own
Lindsey Macmillan, Paul Gregg
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Department of Health's accidental injury research initiative [PDF]
In 1999 the Government?s White Paper, Saving Lives, Our Healthier Nationidentified accidental injury as a priority for action. It set national targets to reducethe rates of death associated with accidental injury in England by 2010 by at leastone fifth ...
Ward, H
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Genetic markers as instrumental variables: an application to child fat mass and academic achievement [PDF]
The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from economists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments.
Carol Propper +4 more
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