Abstract:Background
Early childhood poverty is associated with poorer health and educational outcomes in adolescence. However, there is limited evidence about the clustering of these adverse outcomes by income group.
Methods
We analysed five outcomes at age 17 known to limit life chances – psychological distress, self–assessed ill health, smoking, obesity, and poor educational achievement – using data from the longitudinal UK Millennium Cohort Study (N=15,245). We compared how single and multiple outcomes were distribu… Show more
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