Longitudinal and Life Course Studies favourites of 2021

We wanted to share some of our readers' favourite content that you might have missed. Please enjoy free access to some of our most read and highly cited articles, along with some of our editors’ top articles from recent issues.  

All articles below are free to access until 31 December 2021

Most Read of 2020

Causality in life course research: the potential use of natural experiments for causal inference
Ross Macmillan and Carmel Hannan

Early-life circumstances and the risk of function-limiting long-term conditions in later life [Open Access]
Matthew H. Iveson, Chris Dibben and Ian J. Deary 

Young British adults homeownership circumstances and the role of intergenerational transfers
Ellie Suh

Child maltreatment (neglect and abuse) in the 1958 birth cohort: an overview of associations with developmental trajectories and long-term outcomes
Chris Power, Leah Li, and Snehal M. Pinto Pereira

Socio-economic position at four time points across the life course and all-cause mortality: updated results from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study [Open Access]
Amy Heshmati et al.

Ones to Watch

How have women's employment patterns during young adulthood changed in Chile? A cohort study
Ignacio Madero-Cabib, Rosario Undurraga and Cristian Valenzuela

Social inequalities in educational attainment: The changing impact of parents' social class, social status, education and family income, England 1986 and 2010
Nicola Pensiero and Ingrid Schoon

Highly Cited

The Russian panel study 'Trajectories in Education and Careers'
Valeriya Malik

Young people and the Great Recession: Variations in the school-to-work transition in Europe and the United States
Ingrid Schoon and John Bynner

Reconstructing the mixed mechanisms of health: the role of bio- and sociomarkers
Virginia Ghiara and Federica Russo

Generations and Gender Survey study profile [Open Access] 
Anne H. Gauthier, Susana Laia Farinha Cabaço and Tom Emery

MatCH (Mothers and their Children's Health) Profile: Offspring of the 1973-78 Cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health [Open Access]
Gita D. Mishra et al.

Timing and duration of social assistance receipt during childhood on early adult outcomes [Open Access]
Tiina Ristikari, Marko Merikukka and Mia Hakovirta 

Disability and the transition to early adulthood: A life course contingency perspective [Open Access]
Gina Allen Erickson and Ross MacMillan

Editors' Choice 

Free to read until 31 January 
Development of socio-economic gaps in children’s language skills in Germany [Open Access]
Thorsten Schneider and Tobias Linberg

The lasting imprint of childhood disadvantage: cumulative histories of exposure to childhood adversity and trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood
Loanna S. Heidinger and Andrea E. Willson

Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s
Lindsay Paterson

See also: Volume 10, Number 3, July 2019 our free sample issue.

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