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Title: Small Families Are Better for Kids, New Research Says
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Swanson, Ana |
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Small Families Are Better for Kids, New Research Says Washington Post, January 1, 2016, Wonkblog. Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/01/small-families-are-better-for-kids-according-to-new-research/?utm_term=.6d92540e0816 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Washington Post Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cognitive Ability; Family Size; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Noncognitive Skills; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A paper from three economists that looks at 26 years of data on parents and children suggests that with every additional kid born, the other siblings are more likely to suffer from lower cognitive abilities and more behavioral issues, and have worse outcomes later in life. [News media article based on Juhn, Chinhui, Yona Rubinstein and Charles Andrew Zuppann. "The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills." NBER Working Paper No. 21824, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2015] |
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Swanson, Ana. "Small Families Are Better for Kids, New Research Says." Washington Post, January 1, 2016, Wonkblog. |