Unequal Entry to Motherhood and Unequal Starts in Life:
Evidence from the First Survey of the UK Millennium Cohort
Denise Hawkes, Heather Joshi* and Kelly Ward
Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H OAL, UK
CLS Cohort Studies Working Paper No. 6
November 2004
* Author for correspondence: [email protected]
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the parents of the Millennium Cohort children for their
co-operation in producing the data set analyzed here, the funders of the survey - the
Economic and Social Research Council and a consortium of UK Government
Departments led by the Office of National Statistics, and our colleagues in the
Millennium Cohort team at CLS for the teamwork that goes into the creation of this data
resource. Further details about the Survey and public access to it can be found at
http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Cohort/MCS/mcsmain.htm. Earlier versions of this paper were
given at the 2004 conferences of the European Society for Population Economics and of
the British Society for Population Studies. It was also presented at seminars at Harvard
and Princeton Universities. Comments from these audiences have been appreciated, as
would further comments from readers of this working paper.