educational achievement for a representative sample of Irish 9 year olds. Students are partitioned into four groups according to … decompositions show consistently significant effects for income, number of childrens books in the home and maternal age. …

-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income …

There is a well-established socioeconomic gradient in cognitive test scores for children. This gradient emerges at very … early ages and there is also some evidence that it can widen as children age. We investigate this phenomenon with two … longitudinal cohorts of Irish children who take such tests at ages ranging from 9 months to 17 years, using maternal education and …

gradient, measured with respect to maternal education and family income, becomes steeper. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of … those whose mothers have the lowest level of education. Decomposition of the concentration index with respect to income … reveals a greater role for income related obesity mobility rather than obesity related income mobility. …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 … is higher for children whose mothers have lower levels of education, with net movements into rather than out of poverty. …

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … mobility appears to be relatively limited although it is greater than for the mothers of the children over the same time period …

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and …

Sequence and cluster analysis is applied to measures of body mass index for mothers and children for four waves of the … cluster analysis is then applied. Distinct clusterings are found for both mothers and children and multinomial logit models … children. …