Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of SocialExclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationshipsbetween childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adultwell-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the National ChildDevelopment Study, we use a rich array of childhood background informationand examine the associations for men and women separately. Similar to findingsfor the earlier cohort, there is evidence of inter-generational transmission ofcertain outcomes. Cohort members who lived in social housing as children aremore likely to live in social housing as adults. Those with fathers who weremanually employed are more likely to be manually employed themselves, andthose whose families were poor are more likely to have low incomes. Academictest scores and parental housing tenure stand out as two of the strongest andmost consistent correlates of adult disadvantage. For males, in particular,evidence of childhood aggression is also a consistent and fairly strong predictorof poor outcomes.[...]