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Religion and Education: Evidence from the National Child Development Study [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007 In this paper, we explore the determinants of one aspect of religious behaviour - church attendance - at the individual level using British data derived from the National Child Development Study (NCDS). To be specific, we focus on the relationship between education and church attendance, which has attracted some attention in the existing literature. In
Sarah Brown, K. Taylor
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Modelling non‐response in the National Child Development Study
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2006 SummaryThere is widespread concern that the cumulative effects of the non-response that is bound to affect any long-running longitudinal study will lead to mistaken inferences about change. We focus on the National Child Development Study and show how non-response has accumulated over time.
D. Hawkes, I. Plewis
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Epilepsy in childhood: findings from the National Child Development Study. [PDF]
BMJ, 1980 By the age of 11 years 1043 children (6.7%) in an unselected national sample had a history of seizures or other episodes of loss of consciousness; 322 (20.8/1000) had a history of febrile convulsions without other epileptic problems. A clear-cut diagnosis of non-febrile epilepsy was established in 64 children (4.1/1000) by the age of 11 on the basis of
E. Ross +3 more
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Childhood problem behaviors and death by midlife: the British National Child Development Study. [PDF]
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009 To examine childhood problem behaviors manifested as externalizing behaviors (e.g., aggression, impulsivity) and internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiousness, avoidant behavior) as predictors of mortality by the age of 46 years and to assess whether these associations are dependent on childhood family background.The participants were 5,426 girls and 5 ...
M. Jokela, J. Ferrie, M. Kivimäki
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Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study). [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006 Chris Power, J. Elliott
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Social interaction and children's academic test scores: Evidence from the National Child Development Study [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009 We explore the relationship between educational attainment and social interaction using individual level data from the British . To be specific, we analyze whether an intergenerational aspect to this relationship exists by examining the relationship between the educational attainment of children and the degree of formal social activity undertaken by ...
Sarah Brown, K. Taylor
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Epilepsy in young people: 23 year follow up of the british national child development study [PDF]
BMJ, 1998 To estimate the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy during childhood and early adult life in England, Scotland, and Wales.Prospective study of 17,414 children born in England, Scotland, and Wales between 3 and 9 March 1958, followed up at 7, 11, 16, and 23 years of age, with a review of those with epilepsy at age 28.People with epilepsy developing at ...
Z. Kurtz, P. Tookey, E. Ross
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Bullying, Education and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Child Development Study [PDF]
, 2005 We explore the effect of bullying at school on the educational attainment of a sample of individuals drawn from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS).
Brown, S., Taylor, K.
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Assessing recall of early life circumstances: evidence from the National Child Development Study
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2013 Cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies alike make regular use of retrospective questions about childhood circumstances. However, little is known about the accuracy with which adults can recall this kind of information. This paper seeks to address this topic by comparing retrospective reports of the number of people and the number of rooms in ...
Matthew A. Brown
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