‘Bucking the trend’: What enables those who are disadvantaged in childhood to succeed later in life?
Working Paper No. 31
by Jo Blanden
This report presents findings from a secondary analysis of the British Cohort Study and investigates the factors that help children, who grow up in low-income households, to go on to escape poverty in later life. The report looks at the characteristics of children who were poor at age sixteen, as well as the characteristics of their parents, and uses multivariate statistical techniques to identify the key factors which helped them escape poverty by the time they reached the age of thirty. The analysis looks at characteristics throughout childhood such as early attainment, parental interest and peer group effects.
May 2006
ISBN 1 84712 017 2 Paperback
‘Bucking the trend’: What enables
those who are disadvantaged in childhood to succeed later in life? 