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,...

Using data from the first five waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we examine the extent and determinants of residential mobility for persons aged 55 years or older, plus the subsequent housing adjustments made by those who move. The dimensions of adjustment examined are house value and...

We investigate the lifetime incidence of single motherhood and the stepfamily formation in Great Britain using both retrospective and panel information contained in the British Household Panel Study, 1991-94. Our analysis indicates that about 40 percent of mothers will spend some time as a...

The analysis contributes to the economic theory of household formation decisions, deriving predictions about the impact of the price of housing, young adults income and parental income on the probability that a young adult lives away from hisher parents. It uses longitudinal data on a cohort of...

Data on complete histories of all spells of marriage and cohabitation from the second wave of British Household Panel Study (1992) are used to explore the changing nature of partnership formation and dissolution in Great Britain. In addition to these life history data, the first four annual...