Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by … link between income persistence across generations and the gap in educational achievement by family background (referred to … opportunity should encourage students to aim high. …

there are benefits to improving the soft skills of the most disadvantaged children, alongside their attainment, to ensure a …

Bullying among school-aged children and adolescents is recognised as an important social problem, and the adverse … understanding of the risk of bullying victimisation among disabled children in both early and later childhood, drawing on nationally … contributing to negative long-term outcomes among disabled children. …

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

A systematic review was conducted to determine the extent to which an economic case has been made in high-income … excluded, with the exception of support for parents with mental health problems, which might indirectly affect the mental … health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

Children who have been sexually abused may suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties. Recent research found …

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … public concern. The present article examines whether the use of such services increases the risks that children and young … people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 …

study the role of education for intergenerational income associations in three countries over time, and across the life …-span of sons. We pay particular attention to issues of life-cycle bias and measurement error in modelling income mobility in a … elasticity into three parts: the relationship between income and education, the returns to education, and the direct relationship …