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Early‐Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior, and Health

Early‐Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior, and Health This article assesses the consequences of poverty between a child’s prenatal year and 5th birthday for several adult achievement, health, and behavior outcomes, measured as late as age 37. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1,589) and controlling for economic conditions in middle childhood and adolescence, as well as demographic conditions at the time of the birth, findings indicate statistically significant and, in some cases, quantitatively large detrimental effects of early poverty on a number of attainment‐related outcomes (adult earnings and work hours). Early‐childhood poverty was not associated with such behavioral measures as out‐of‐wedlock childbearing and arrests. Most of the adult earnings effects appear to operate through early poverty’s association with adult work hours. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Child Development Wiley

Early‐Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior, and Health

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2010,Copyright © 2010, Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
ISSN
0009-3920
eISSN
1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01396.x
pmid
20331669
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Abstract

This article assesses the consequences of poverty between a child’s prenatal year and 5th birthday for several adult achievement, health, and behavior outcomes, measured as late as age 37. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1,589) and controlling for economic conditions in middle childhood and adolescence, as well as demographic conditions at the time of the birth, findings indicate statistically significant and, in some cases, quantitatively large detrimental effects of early poverty on a number of attainment‐related outcomes (adult earnings and work hours). Early‐childhood poverty was not associated with such behavioral measures as out‐of‐wedlock childbearing and arrests. Most of the adult earnings effects appear to operate through early poverty’s association with adult work hours.

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Child DevelopmentWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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