This study examines the magnitude of the link between child poverty and poverty later in adult life using members of two cohorts from two national datasets, one group in their teens in the 1970s and the other in their teens in the 1980s. The study looks at the following questions:
- How great an impact does living in a poor family as a teenager have on the chances of living in poverty in the early thirties?
- How much has this impact changed between the two cohorts that were teenagers in the 1970s and the 1980s?
- How far do other characteristics at age 16 and in adulthood explain these links?