Changes in the relationship between social housing tenure and child outcomes over time: Comparing the Millennium and British Cohort Studies

Bilal Nasim ()
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Bilal Nasim: Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University College London

No 15-06, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: This paper is the first to investigate how tenure inequalities in child outcomes have changed over time. I compare the differences in the cognitive, non-cognitive and health outcomes of children in social housing with children in non-social housing, and evaluate whether these tenure differences have changed between the 1970 BCS cohort and the 2000 MCS cohort. I find that in both cohorts, children in social housing exhibit worse outcomes across all three dimensions than children in non-social housing. For cognitive and health outcomes, however, the tenure difference has narrowed between the two cohorts, while for non-cognitive outcomes, the tenure difference has widened. These results suggest that children in social housing tenure have experienced both a relative improvement in their cognitive and health outcomes over time, and a relative worsening in their non-cognitive outcomes over time, compared with children in non-social housing.

Keywords: Social Housing Tenure; Child Outcomes; Cohort Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-26
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