Author: Abigail McKnight, London School of Economics
Published by: Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, June 2015
Summary
Author Abigail McKnight used data from 9,075 participants in the British Birth Cohort Survey, comparing outcomes in later life – earnings and job status – for children with relatively low cognitive skills at age five with results for children with relatively high cognitive skills, from both disadvantaged and better off families. McKnight then looked at factors that might account for the differences between the groups, including parental education; later childhood performance in reading and maths; and social and emotional skills in childhood, such as self-esteem, behaviour, type of secondary school attended, and whether or not individuals went on to get a degree qualification.
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