The Timing of Child Bearing: Signals of Intergenerational Advantage and Disadvantage Denise Hawkes, Heather Joshi* and Kelly Ward Centre for Longitudinal Research, Institute of Education, University of London 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H OAL, UK Paper for BSPS Conference, Leicester September 2004 * author for correspondence: hj@cls.ioe.ac.uk PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE VERSION: NOT FOR CITATION Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the parents of the Millennium Cohort children for their co- operation in producing the data set analyzed here, the funders of the survey: the Economic and Social Research Council and a consortium of UK Government Departments led by the Office of National Statistics, and our colleagues in the Millennium Cohort team at CLS for the teamwork that goes into the creation of this data resource . Further details about the Survey and public access to it can be found at http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/Cohort/MCS/mcsmain.htm Hawkes, Joshi and Ward : Timing of Childbearing, BSPS Conference, September 2004- 09-09 1