Executive summary
In this report we assess the evidence on the long-run associations between social and emotional
skills in childhood and adult outcomes. We report findings from an extensive literature review, and
from our own new research.
There are three key elements:
- A literature review of evidence relating to the relationship between social and emotional
skills in childhood and adult outcomes; - New analysis of the British Cohort Study about these relationships across a wide range of
outcomes, including a particular focus on the role of social and emotional skills in
transmitting ‘top job’ status between parents and their children; - New, preliminary analysis of how the gaps in some of the skills assessed in part 2 are
emerging in children in the UK born around the millennium.