Kirstine Hansen - Children of the 21st Century: The First Five Years

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Contents

We wish to acknowledge the funding of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the consortium of government departments (led by the Office for National Statistics [ONS]) including the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department of Health (DH), Sure Start and the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).

We would also like to thank the children who form the Millennium Cohort, their mothers, fathers and other family members for giving up time for the interviews.

Thanks are also due to Chris Baker for editing and formatting work and to Mina Thompson for collating references and lists.

Name

Alice Sullivan

Research and Teaching Fellow

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Anna Vignoles

Professor of Economics of Education at the Institute of Education, and Director of the Centre for Economics of Education

Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London

Carol Dezateux

Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology, and Director of MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health

Institute of Child Health, University College London

Catherine Law

Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, and Director of the Centre for Policy Research

Institute of Child Health, University College London

Elizabeth Jones

Research Officer

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Fiona Mensah

Research Fellow

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York

Fiona Roberts

Research Officer

Department of Education, University of Oxford

Heather Joshi

Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, and Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Helen Cheng

Research Officer

Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London

Ingrid Schoon

Professor of Human Development and Social Policy

Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London

Jo Blanden

Lecturer in Economics

Department of Economics, University of Surrey, and Centre for the Economics of Education and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science

John Holmes

Research Associate

Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester

John McDonald

Professor in Longitudinal Social Statistics

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Jonathan Bradshaw

Professor of Social Policy

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York

Kathleen Kiernan

Professor of Social Policy and Demography

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York

Kathy Sylva

Professor of Educational Psychology

Department of Education, University of Oxford

Kelly Ward

Senior Database Manager

National Centre for Social Research, London

Kirstine Hansen

Research Director, Millennium Cohort Study

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Lorraine Dearden

Professor of Economics and Social Statistics

Department of Quantitative Social

Science, Institute of Education, University of London, and Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

Lucy Jane Griffiths

Senior Research Fellow

Institute of Child Health, University College London

Luke Sibieta

Senior Research Economist

Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

Melanie Bartley

Professor of Medical Sociology

Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London

Sandra Mathers

Senior Research Officer

Department of Education, University of Oxford

Shirley Dex

Professor of Longitudinal Social Research in Education

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Sosthenes Ketende

Research Officer

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Stephen Machin

Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economics of Education and Programme Director, Skills and Education, Centre for Economic Performance Department of Economics, University College London, and Centre for Economics of Education and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science