We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and … children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they … have an obese parent. Irrespective of their parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … parenting and to use psychological control with their children more often, these two factors being linked to child behavioural … that behavioural problems in children are associated with lower school grades independent of parenting style. These …

. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that … the pattern of social influences on allergies is too coloured to be reduced to mere correlations between allergy and SES …

. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that … the pattern of social influences on allergies is too coloured to be reduced to mere correlations between allergy and SES …