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Socio-economic status and child behaviour: evidence from a contemporary UK cohort

Propper, Carol and Rigg, John A. (2007) Socio-economic status and child behaviour: evidence from a contemporary UK cohort. CASEpapers (125). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

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Abstract

This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children’s behavioural development in today’s children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities in several dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We examine whether these inequalities are associated with characteristics of the child’s early home environment and parental behaviours. These include the material quality of the child’s home, maternal mental health, parental conflict and child diet. Most of these factors are socially graded and so could potentially account for the gradient in behaviours, but none singly account for a large part of the gradient in behavioural outcomes. However, taken together, these differences in the home environment can explain up to half the social gradients in child behaviours.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case
Additional Information: © 2007 The Authors
Divisions: STICERD
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
JEL classification: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2008 13:41
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 23:11
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6210

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