This paper explores the role of the family-in particular family background, family structure
and social and cultural resources-in explaining educational achievement in Britain. We use …

A number of studies have explored the link between family background and children's
achievement in a cross‐national context. A common finding is that there is a stronger …

Parental support with children's learning is considered to be one pathway through which
socio‐economic factors influence child competencies. Utilising a national longitudinal …

The odds are stacked in favour of some young people and against others when it comes to
educational attainment in Britain. For example, some youth are more advantaged than …

Family characteristics' links to literacy learning and their differences across macrosystems
(economic and cultural contexts) were explored in multilevel analyses of the reading tests …

The combined impact of social class, cultural background and experience upon early
literacy achievement in the first year of schooling is among the most durable questions in …

Background Cultural capital in families and especially, the educational level of parents, has
during the last decades been found to be the most important dimension of socio‐economic …

By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio‐economic gap in their
reading proficiency. There are a number of potential explanations for this socio‐economic …

This paper examines inequalities in attainment in vocabulary and mathematics at age 16 for
a nationally representative cohort of people born in Britain in 1970 (the 1970 British Cohort …

In this paper, we address two research questions on the basis of the series of British birth
cohort studies. First, how large is the part played by cognitive ability in mediating the …