This review looks at the current state of research on early childhood education and care
(ECEC) from a sociological stance. We summarize how children's experiences and benefits …

Background Child disruptive behavioural problems are a large and costly public health
problem. The Incredible Years®(IY) parenting programme has been disseminated across …

Background ACE (adverse childhood experience) studies typically examine the links
between childhood stressors and adult health harming behaviours. Using an enhanced ACE …

Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this article
estimates the relationship between maternal time inputs and early child development. We …

When in children's lives do gaps by family socioeconomic status (SES) in cognitive skills
emerge, how large are they before children enter school, and how do they develop over …

The issue of whether the social class of grandparents affects grandchildren's socioeconomic
outcomes net of the characteristics of the middle generation is much debated in the social …

This paper gives an account of the origins, objectives and structure of the Millennium Cohort
Study (MCS)–some 19,000 individuals born in the UK in 2000-2001–and its use in a wide …

We apply latent class analysis to data on parent–teenager interaction that was collected in
the Youth Panel of the British Household Panel Survey. The three parenting styles that we …

We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly
considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, parenting style is modeled …

We use data from the four sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study of children born at the
turn of the 21st century to document the effect that poverty, and in particular persistent …