John Hobcraft - Publications#

Recent reports

Hobcraft, J. N. and Kiernan, K. E. (2010) Predictive factors from age 3 and infancy for poor child outcomes at age 5 relating to children’s development, behaviour and health: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study, University of York.

Recent Publications

Hobcraft, J. (2009). Reflections on the incorporation of biomeasures into longitudinal social surveys: an international perspective. Biodemography and Social Biology, 55(2): 252-269.

Hobcraft, J. (2009). Circumstances of young adults: results from the Generations and Gender Programme. In UNECE How Generations and Gender Shape Demographic Change: Towards Policies Based on Better Knowledge. New York and Geneva, United Nations. pp. 83-106.

J. Hobcraft (2009) From eugenics to epigenetics: exploring the decoupling of human sexual and reproductive behaviours. The Galton Institute Newsletter 70.

J. Hobcraft and W. Sigle-Rushton (2009) Identifying patterns of resilience using classification and regression trees. Social Policy and Society 8(1):87-98. Available online via Cambridge Journals.

J. Hobcraft (2008) The timing and partnership context of becoming a parent: cohort and gender commonalities and differences in childhood antecedents. Demographic Research 19-34: 1281-1322. Available online.

F. Mensah and J.N. Hobcraft (2008) Childhood deprivation, health and development: associations with adult health in the 1958 and 1970 British prospective birth cohort studies. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62(7): 599-606. Available online via BMJ.

J. Hobcraft (2008) Genomics and beyond: improving understanding and analysis of human (social, economic and demographic) behavior. In M. Weinstein, J.W. Vaupel and K.W. Wachter (Eds) Bio-social Surveys . Washington D.C., National Academies Press.

J. Hobcraft (2007) Enabling transdisciplinary research in the UKHLS: Incorporating biomarkers and pathways into research on the interplays among social, economic, behavioural and health sciences. Report to ESRC.

J. Hobcraft (2007) Towards a scientific understanding of demographic behaviour. Population-E 62(1):47-51 .and as ‘Pour améliorer notre compréhension des comportements démographiques.’ Population-F 62(1) : 47-52.

J. Hobcraft (2007) Child development, the life course, and social exclusion; are the frameworks used in the UK relevant for developing countries? Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper 72, University of Manchester.

J.N. Hobcraft (2006) The ABC of demographic behaviour: How the interplays of alleles, brains and contexts over the life course should shape research aimed at understanding population processes. Population Studies 60(2): 153-187.

J.N. Hobcraft (2006) The ICPD and the panel in context: an introduction and commentary. In UNFPA. The ICPD Vision: How Far Has the 11-Year Journey Taken Us? Report from a UNFPA Panel Discussion at the IUSSP XXV International Population Conference. New York: UNFPA (pp.4-17).

W. Sigle-Rushton, J.N. Hobcraft and K.E. Kiernan (2005) Parental disruption and subsequent disadvantage: a cross-cohort comparison. Demography 42(3):427-446.

J.N. Hobcraft and W. Sigle-Rushton. (2005). An exploration of childhood antecedents of female adult malaise in two British birth cohorts: Combining Bayesian model averaging and recursive partitioning. CASEpaper 95, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE (58pp).

J.N. Hobcraft. 2004. Parental, childhood and early adult legacies in the emergence of adult social exclusion: evidence on what matters from a British cohort. In P.L Chase-Lansdale, K.E. Kiernan and R.J. Friedman (Eds.) Human Development Across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change. Cambridge U.P. (pp. 63-92).

J.N. Hobcraft (2004) Method, theory and substance in understanding choices about becoming a parent: progress or regress? Comment on Caldwell and Schindlmayr’s “Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies: a search for commonalities”. Population Studies 58(1): 81-84.

J.N. Hobcraft. (2003) Towards a conceptual framework on population, reproductive health, gender and poverty reduction. In UNFPA Population and Poverty: Achieving Equity, Equality and Sustainability. (UNFPA Population and Development Strategies Series No. 8). New York, United Nations Population Fund. (pp.127-135).

L. Simpson, J.N. Hobcraft and D.G. King (2003) The 2001 One Number Census and its Quality Assurance: a review. Research Briefing 6.03. London: Local Government Association.

J.N. Hobcraft. (2003) Continuity and change in pathways to young adult disadvantage: results from a British birth cohort. CASEpaper 66, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE (43pp).

J.N. Hobcraft. (2003) Reflections on demographic, evolutionary, and genetic approaches to the study of human reproductive behavior. In K.W. Wachter and R.A. Bulatao (Eds.) Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective. Washington D.C., National Academies Press. (pp.339-357).

J.N. Hobcraft. (2002) Moving beyond elaborate description: towards understanding choices about parenthood. In M. Macura and G. Beets (Eds.) The Dynamics of Fertility and Partnership in Europe: Insights and Lessons from Comparative Research Vol. I. New York and Geneva, United Nations. (pp. 131-143). Available online.

J.N. Hobcraft. (2002) Social exclusion and the generations. In J. Hills, J. LeGrand and D. Piachaud (editors) Understanding Social Exclusion. Oxford UP (pp. 62-83).

J.N. Hobcraft and K.E.Kiernan (2001) Childhood poverty, early motherhood and adult social exclusion. British Journal of Sociology 52:495-517.

C. Stanton, J.N. Hobcraft, K. Hill, N. Kodjjogbe, W.T. Mapeta, F. Munene, M. Naghavi, V. Rabeza, B. Sisouphanthong, and O. Campbell (2001) Every death counts: measurement of maternal mortality via a census. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 79(7):657-664. (Also published in French as ‘ Chaque décès compte: mesure de la mortalité maternelle à partir des recensements’ and in Spanish as ‘Todas las muertes cuentan: medición de la mortalidad materna mediante datos censales’).

J.N. Hobcraft. (2000) The roles of schooling and educational qualifications in the emergence of adult social exclusion. CASEpaper 43, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE (69pp).

J.N. Hobcraft (2000) The consequences of female empowerment for child well-being: a review of concepts, issues and evidence in a post-Cairo context . In H. Presser and G. Sen (Eds.) Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo. Oxford U.P. for IUSSP.