Publications by authors named "Adam Swift"

Article Synopsis
  • Good health in early childhood is really important, but kids who have to live in foster care or other types of care often have worse health than those who don’t.
  • In this study, researchers looked at health issues that affect young children (under 6) who have experienced care outside of their home.
  • They found that many of these kids struggle with physical growth, dental problems, and getting vaccines, showing they need better health support.
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This paper investigates the claim that the shift from a selective to a comprehensive school system had a deleterious effect on social mobility in Great Britain. Using data from the National Child Development Study, we compare the chances, for both class and income mobility, of those who attended different kinds of school. Where media attention focuses exclusively on the chances for upward mobility of those children from lowly origins who were (or would have been) judged worthy of selection into a grammar school, we offer more rounded analyses.

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