LifeSim Childhood
A microsimulation model of childhood development and health outcomes from birth to young adulthood, based on bespoke modelling of UK Millennium Cohort Study data.
LifeSim Childhood can be linked with LifeSim Adulthood to estimate the life-course impacts of tackling different childhood disadvantages at different ages and to extrapolate the life-course fiscal cost savings, benefits and inequality impacts of specific policy effects during childhood.
Outputs
- Villadsen et al. (2023). The Lancet Public Health. Clustering of Adverse Health and Educational Outcomes in Adolescence Following Early Childhood Disadvantage: Population-Based Retrospective UK Cohort Study.
Funding: Funded by the Prevention Research Programme (ActEarly Programme, MR/S037527/1, 2019 to 2024) and the UKRI "Long-Term Modelling Tools for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research" (Grant No. MMR/X002837/1, 2023 to 2026).