Heather Joshi

Biographic Data

ID198938
NAMEHeather Joshi
GIVEN NAMESHeather
FAMILY NAMEJoshi
SIGNATUREJOSHI H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
ORCID0000-0002-0708-6367
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS91
TOTAL CITATIONS749
AUTHOR COUNT88
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX17

  • Ability-grouping and problem behavior trajectories in childhood and adolescence: Results from a U.K. population-based sample

    Open AccessEfstathios Papachristou, Eirini Flouri et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Ability-grouping has been studied extensively in relation to children's academic, but not emotional and behavioral outcomes. The sample comprised 7259 U.K. children (50% male) with data on between-class and within-class ability-grouping at age 7. Peer, emotional, hyperactivity, and conduct problems were measured at ages 7, 11, and 14 years. Children in low within-class ability groups showed more hyperactivity and emotional problems across the stu…

  • Does residential mobility affect child development at age five? A comparative study of children born in U.S. and U.K. cities

    Ludovica Gambaro, Anthony Buttaro et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022

    Residential mobility is a normal feature of family life but thought to be a source of disruption to a child's development. Mobility may have its own direct consequences or reflect families' capabilities and vulnerabilities. This article examines the association between changes of residence and verbal and behavioral scores of children aged 5, contributing to the literature in three ways. First, it compares two countries, by drawing on the Fragile …

  • Neighborhood and Child Development at Age Five: A UK–US Comparison

    Open AccessAnthony Buttaro, Ludovica Gambaro et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Early childhood is a critical period in the life course, setting the foundation for future life. Early life contexts-neighborhoods and families-influence developmental outcomes, especially when children are exposed to economic and social disadvantage. Residential mobility, frequent among families with pre-school children, may reduce or increase exposure to adverse surroundings. We examine children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age five, …

  • The gender gap in wages over the life course: Evidence from a British cohort born in 1958

    Open AccessHeather Joshi, Alex Bryson et al.ARTICLEGender Work and Organization2020Cited by: 3References: 7

    We trace the gender wage gap (GWG) though a mid‐life peak for a cohort born in Britain in 1958 (National Child Development Study) to quantify their life‐course experience of equal and unequal opportunities. Taking hourly pay of full‐timers and part‐timers together, an initial gap between men and women widened substantially during childrearing years. Much, but not all, of the GWG is attributable to divergent work experience, especially in mid‐life…

  • Developmental Trajectories of Conduct Problems and Cumulative Risk from Early Childhood to Adolescence

    Open AccessLeslie Morrison Gutman, Heather Joshi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2019Cited by: 6References: 50

    Pathways into and out of conduct problems differ by circumstances experienced since infancy. There is a research gap in understanding how these developmental patterns vary according to the timing and persistence of risk and whether there are differences across ecological domains. This study examines variations in trajectories of conduct problems between ages 3 to 14 years and associated child, family and socio-economic risk factors from ages 9 mo…

  • Individual-level predictors of young children’s aspirations

    Open AccessVanessa Moulton, Eirini Flouri et al.ARTICLEResearch Papers in Education2018Cited by: 2References: 41

    Often young children already have some ideas about what they want to do in the future. Using data from a large UK cohort study, we investigated the individual determinants of seven-year-old children’s aspirations, controlling for parental socio-economic background and parental involvement in learning. At age 7, not all children’s aspirations were unrealistic (55.6% of children aspired to common occupations), few (1.2%) were fantasy, but most were…

  • The Impact of Complex Family Structure on Child Well-being: Evidence From Siblings

    Open AccessTarek Mostafa, Ludovica Gambaro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2018Cited by: 5References: 57

    Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort on children at ages 3 and 5 with older siblings addresses the questions of whether those living with both biological parents and only full siblings have better emotional and behavior outcomes than other children, and whether nonfull siblings affect children's outcomes independently of parents' partnership status. Adjusting for measured family circumstances and resources in cross-sectional regress…

  • Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

    Open AccessLudovica Gambaro, Heather Joshi et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2017Cited by: 14References: 6

    This paper assesses how far residential moves can result in improvement or deterioration of the housing and neighbourhood circumstances for families with young children. It uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study concentrating on the time between infancy and age 5, 2001 to 2006. First, we ask which families moved home and in what circumstances. We then examine how moving changed several aspects of housing: space standards, damp problems, an…

  • The influence of grandparents’ social class on children’s aspirations

    Open AccessVanessa Moulton, Eirini Flouri et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology of…2017Cited by: 3References: 39

    Social class mobility from grandparent to grandchild is a relatively neglected topic. Grandparents today are often healthier and more active, and have longer relationships with their grandchildren than in previous generations. We used data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (n = 8570) to investigate the influence of maternal and paternal grandparents’ social class on the aspirations of children at age seven. Using path analysis and controlling…

  • Why have relative rates of class mobility become more equal among women inBritain

    Open AccessE Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2017Cited by: 7References: 19

    In a previous paper it has been shown that across three cohorts of men and women born in Britain in 1946, 1958 and 1970 a gender difference exists in regard to relative rates of class mobility. For men these rates display an essential stability but for women they become more equal. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the causes of this trend-or, that is, of increasing social fluidity-among women. We begin by considering a refined ver…

  • The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives

    Heather JoshiARTICLEPopulation Studies2017

    "The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives." Population Studies, 71(1), pp. 134–135

  • The Millennium Cohort Study: The making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

    Heather Joshi, Elizabeth Fitzsimons et al.ARTICLELongitudinal and Life Course…2016

    This paper gives an account of the origins, objectives and structure of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) -some 19,000 individuals born in the UK in 2000-2001 -and its use in a wide range of research on many aspects of their lives in childhood years. We highlight some of the mass of output on the first five surveys to age 11 in 2012. Topics discussed are social inequalities in child development; comparisons with other cohorts; areas not well cove…

  • Evaluating the impact of early years educational reform in Wales to age seven: The potential use of the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Chris Taylor, Heather Joshi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Education Policy2015Cited by: 1References: 14

    Early years education has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly as a result of longitudinal studies that demonstrate the importance of the first few years in a child's development and educational experience. In 2004, a new approach to early years education, the Foundation Phase, was introduced in Wales. This is a major flagship policy of the recently devolved Welsh Government, and marks a radical departure from the more as…

  • Environmental influences on children's physical activity

    Open AccessTheodora Pouliou, Francesco Sera et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Cited by: 1References: 34

    BACKGROUND: This paper aims to assess whether 7-year-olds' physical activity is associated with family and area-level measures of the physical and socioeconomic environments. METHODS: We analysed the association of environments with physical activity in 6497 singleton children from the UK Millennium Cohort Study with reliable accelerometer data (≥2 days and ≥10 h/day). Activity levels were assessed as counts per minute; minutes of moderate to vig…

  • The role of aspirations in young children's emotional and behavioural problems

    Open AccessVanessa Moulton, Eirini Flouri et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2015Cited by: 2References: 59

    Using data from a large UK cohort (n = 11,656), we investigated the determinants of 7‐year‐old children's aspirations, and the role of these aspirations in emotional and behavioural problems, as reported by both parents and teachers. Aspirations were classified to reflect their occupational status, masculinity/femininity and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. Children's aspirations had significant antecedents in social disadvantage, parental involve…

  • The role of urban neighbourhood green space in children's emotional and behavioural resilience

    Open AccessEirini Flouri, Emily Midouhas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Psychology2014

  • Neighbourhood social fragmentation and the mental health of children in poverty

    Open AccessEirini Flouri, Emily Midouhas et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2014Cited by: 2References: 10

  • Social Class and Inequalities in Early Cognitive Scores

    Open AccessAlice Sullivan, Sosthenes Ketende et al.ARTICLESociology2013Cited by: 22References: 24

    Research emphasising the importance of parenting behaviours and aspirations for child outcomes has been seized on by policymakers to suggest the responsibility of the worst off themselves for low levels of social mobility. This article provides a critique of the way in which research evidence has been used to support the dominant policy discourse in this area, as well as an empirical analysis. We use the Millennium Cohort Study to interrogate the…

  • Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years

    Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st century…2010

  • Children of the 21st century: The first five years

    Kirstine Hansen, Kirstein Hansen et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st Century2010

    This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book is the second in a series of books which will report on the findings from the data and follows on from Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months (The Policy Press, 2005). It takes an extended look at the ch…

  • Single-Sex Schooling and Academic Attainment at School and Through the Lifecourse

    Open AccessAlice Sullivan, Heather Joshi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…2010Cited by: 6References: 40

    This article examines the impact of single-sex schooling on a range of academic outcomes for a sample of British people born in 1958. In terms of the overall level of qualifications achieved, single-sex schooling is positive for girls at age 16 but neutral for boys, while at later ages, single-sex schooling is neutral for both sexes. However, single-sex schooling is linked to the attainment of qualifications in gender-atypical subject areas for b…

  • Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

    Jacqueline Lillian Scott, Jacqueline Scott et al.BOOKWomen and Employment2009

  • Universal versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth: A French-British Comparison

    Open AccessM S Rendall, Olivia Ekert‐jaffé et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2009Cited by: 22References: 35

    France and Britain in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood: the "universalistic" regime in France offered subsidized childcare and maternity-leave benefits at all income levels; the "means-tested" regime in Britain mainly offered income-tested benefits for single mothers. Comparing the two countries, we test the hypothesis that the socioeconomic gradient of fertility…

  • Postponement and childlessness - Evidence from two British cohorts

    Open AccessDylan Kneale, Heather JoshiARTICLEDemographic Research2008Cited by: 29References: 12

    This paper starts by reviewing existing projections of childlessness among British men and women. Low current fertility implies high eventual childlessness unless the postponement of parenthood is taken into account. Such re-timing of first births appe

  • Gender differences in occupational wage mobility in the 1958 cohort

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Kelly Ward et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2008Cited by: 10References: 16

    This article examines the wage growth of British men and women between the ages of 33 and 42 who were employed full time at both of these ages using the 1958 National Child and Development Study. Wage growth is examined in the differences of the log of hourly wage rates reported at the 33 and 42 year old interviews of this cohort study. Men were found to have higher wage growth rewards than women when in higher occupations and be more likely than…