Another summary is offered in the introduction to this report Bucking the Trend (Jo Blanden, 2006) "A prime motivation behind the Government’s child poverty reduction strategy is the belief that growing up in poverty leads to children experiencing poorer outcomes later in life. Several studies support this assertion, showing that poorer children have weaker educational attainment (e.g. Gregg and Machin, 1999), and are more likely to end up in poverty in adulthood (Blanden and Gibbons, 2006). However, all these studies present the difference in the average outcomes of poor and non-poor children; clearly there are many children raised in poor backgrounds who do well in later life."

Related publications

‘'Bucking the trend' : what enables those who are disadvantaged in childhood to succeed later in life?’, Jo Blanden: a report of research carried out by the Department of Economics, University of Surrey and the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. [ Working paper ; no. 31 ], 2006

http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/7729/1/WP31.pdf

‘The Persistence of Poverty across Generations: A View from two British Cohorts’, Jo Blanden and Steve Gibbons, published for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by The Policy Press, 25 April 2006

https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/persistence-poverty-across-generations

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