We employ a behavioural measure of trustworthiness obtained from an experiment carried out with a sample of the general British population whose individuals were extensively interviewed on earlier occasions. Our basic finding is that given past income, higher current income increases...

The paper models the transitions rates between the three main housing tenures in Britain. Surprises like partnership break-up, acquisition of a partner and spells of unemployment are found to have large impacts on tenure changes. Through their effects on these transition rates, variation in the...

The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young peoples educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991-95) of the British Household Panel Study. Mothers education is found to be...

In this paper we estimate the associations between several outcomes in early adulthood (educational attainment, unemployment, leaving home, early childbearing, distress and smoking) and a number of parental (or mothers) behaviours during childhood, including the mothers employment patterns, her...

This paper presents two optimising models of individual or parental educational choice, and discusses issues of identification and estimates earnings equations in the context of these models. The estimates indicate that education is endogenous for young mens earnings, but not for young women....

The life histories collected in the second wave of the BHPS are used to study the changing importance of cohabitation without legal marriage and childbearing within such unions in Britain, comparing the experiences of two broad cohorts of women: those born during 1950- 62 and those born after...

This paper has used the British Household Panel Study to analyse womens flows into and out of lone parenthood in conjunction with other demographic transitions which affect the populations at risk to become lone parents. It is rates of partnership dissolution, out-of- partnership first birth and...

This study uses data from the 1958 birth cohort, collected in the British National Child Development study. and from the British Household Panel Study, to model the dynamics of young peoples first entry to either owner-occupation or tenancy in social housing and subsequent tenure changes. The...

Estimates based on couples with dependent children in the first six years of the British Household Panel Study (1991-97) indicate that changes in a couples economic circumstances affect the probability that a partnership dissolves. In particular, unexpected improvements in finances substantially...

The study finds that for children, mothers employment during their childhood is generally associated with favourable outcomes during young childhood: higher educational attainments, lower unemployment and a smaller chance of becoming a mother before a womans 21st birthday. For the most part,...