Impact of Family Socio-economic Status on Outcomes in Childhood & Adolescence is an ESRC funded project which will run for 5 years from April 2007.

Our objective is to understand the importance of family socio-economic status/position for adolescents in today's Britain. Our primary focus is the behaviours and outcomes of individuals in late childhood and adolescence, including:

  • physical and mental health
  • risky behaviours
  • school performance
  • the acquisition of soft cognitive skills.

Project Publications - including Journal Articles and Working Papers.

Forthcoming Events

Monthly Seminar Series

News

Carol Propper, with co-authors Mike Shields and David Johnston, has won the Australian Health Economics Society Research Prize 2011 for their work on hypertension reporting.

The final report of the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances,conducted by Frank Field, was published on December 3rd 2010. The report sets out a new approach to meeting the Government’s target of abolishing child poverty. The report draws heavily on numerous pieces of work conducted by Paul Gregg, Lindsey Macmillan, Elizabeth Washbrook and other members of the IFSSOCA team.  More details.

Professor Paul Gregg has been invited by Alan Milburn, Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility, to form part of a new Cabinet Office advisory group on social mobility.

Academics working on this grant  have recently completed a project for  the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looking at the role of beliefs, behaviours and attitudes in educational attainment.