Working Papers
Is the future female? Educational and occupational aspirations of teenage boys and girls in the UKis a Centre for Longitudinal Studies Working Paper by Lucinda Platt and Sam Parsons examining the educational expectations and occupational aspirations of contemporary teenagers in the UK. It makes use of information collected from participants in the Millennium Cohort Study as … More Is the future female?
Disability among young children: Prevalence heterogeneity and socio-economic disadvantage is a Centre for Longitudinal Studies Working Paper by Lucinda Platt and Sam Parsons which aims to enhance understanding of the relationship between socio-economic position and childhood disability. The research makes use of data from the Millennium Cohort Study to examine whether disadvantage associated with families … More Disability among young children
This paper investigates women’s labour force participation in the UK among women from different ethnic groups. The paper studies variation in entries into the labour market and exits from the labour market. This is unlike much analysis that focuses on the rates at a single point in time. It explores whether there is variation in … More Women’s labour market entries and exits
The changing distribution of individual incomes in the UK before and after the recession is a working paper that uses data from the Family Resources Survey to investigate who gained and who lost in terms of their individual income between 2005-8 and 2009-12. We look at average incomes and across the distribution by age, ethnicity, social … More Income, inequality and recession
Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration: the case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin. is a Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Working Paper. The paper utilises a unique, four-country data source (Causes and Consequences of Early Socio-Cultural Integration Processes among New Immigrants in Europe) covering over 3,500 Poles migrating to Germany, the … More Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration
2000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of migration study is a Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Working Paper. The paper outlines the development, data and design of the 2000 Families study, an origins-of-migration study, capturing the country of origin (Turkey), the family origins and the originating causes of migration processes and outcomes. The resulting data comprised … More 2000 Families: origins-of migration study
This paper investigates when differences in behaviour problems between disabled children and non-disabled children emerge and how they develop up to age 7. This paper is co-authored with Rebecca Fauth and Samantha Parsons. Download the working paper from the Institute of Education site. Photo credit: Honza Soukup
Lucinda Platt 