In order to assess the roles of schooling and educational qualifications inthe emergence of adult social exclusion, a series of detailed regressionmodels were explored separately for men and women for each of a widerange of indicators of adult disadvantage at both ages 23 and 33,...

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorceduring childhood have long-term consequences for the educationalattainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, andparenthood behaviour in adulthood? We show that in most of thesedomains children who...

Using longitudinal data, John Hobcraft has examined how far childhood experience andparental factors are linked to a wide range of outcomes in adulthood. Specific attention wasgiven to childhood poverty, family disruption, and contact with the police.The four (of 12) most powerful and consistent...

This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in Great Britain in March 1958. A sequenceof interrelated analyses that build up a life-course account of the pathwaysinvolved in the origins of adult social exclusion are...