1 / 13

The Childhood Origins of Adult Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter?

The Childhood Origins of Adult Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter?. John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton GeNet Conference 14 December 2006 Queens’ College, Cambridge. Childhood Markers of Adult Disadvantage. Childhood Indicators: Poverty Housing Social Class

Télécharger la présentation

The Childhood Origins of Adult Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. The Childhood Origins of Adult Socioeconomic Disadvantage: Do Cohort and Gender Matter? John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton GeNet Conference 14 December 2006 Queens’ College, Cambridge

  2. Childhood Markers of Adult Disadvantage Childhood Indicators: Poverty Housing Social Class Family Type Parental Interest in School Child Behaviour Academic Test Scores School Absences Contact with Police Adult Social Disadvantage: Social Housing Benefits Household Income Social Class Education Unemployment Age at First Birth Physical and Emotional Health

  3. Research Questions • Are childhood and family antecedents the same? • For both the 1958 and 1970 cohort? • For both genders? • Do gender differentials change over time?

  4. Data • Data: two prospective studies • National Child Development Study (NCDS) • British Cohort Study (BCS)

  5. Data • Data: two prospective studies • National Child Development Study (NCDS) • British Cohort Study (BCS)

  6. Data • Data: Two British Cohort Studies • National Child Development Study (NCDS) • British Cohort Study (BCS)

  7. Inputs and Outcomes Childhood Indicators Poverty (waves 2 & 3 only) Housing Social Class Family Structure Parental Interest in School (Wave 2 only) Temperament (Aggression, Anxiety, Restlessness) Academic Test Scores Adult Disadvantage In Social Housing On Benefits Low Household Income Low Social Class

  8. Measurement and Method • Majority of childhood indicators are summarised across multiple childhood waves • Hierarchical coding of dummies within groups • Step-wise Logistic Regression • repeat backward and forward fitting • strict significance threshold of p<0.001

  9. Measurement and Method • Common or pervasive antecedents • Same response, but different childhood experiences? • Evidence of cohort or gender (or both) differentials • ‘Black-box’ main effects of cohort or gender • Differential responses to same antecedent • Additional antecedents

  10. Results Summary • Main effects • Retained for all outcomes (9 ‘pervasive’ measures) • Academic test scores • Parental housing tenure • Parental interest in education • Temperament: aggression, restlessness • Poverty • Significant links to • Father’s social class • ‘in care’ and ‘born out-of-wedlock’ • Few links to social class of origin or other family structure • No link to anxiety

  11. Results Summary • Very few interactions retained • For gender • Social housing: social class of origin • Benefits: constant, any parental disruption • Low household income: missing parental interest in education • Low social class: social class of origin • For cohort • Social housing: parental housing tenure • Benefits: parental housing tenure, parental interest in education • Low household income: Social class of father (x2), academic test scores • Low social class: constant, social class of origin • For gender and cohort • Low social class: parental housing tenure, social class of origin

  12. Results Summary

  13. Conclusions • Childhood/family antecedents are linked to subsequent outcomes • Similarity and consistency in relationships • Gender and cohort differences often mediated by only a few variables • Over-specification? • Misleading results?

More Related