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Title: The Timing of the Influences of Cumulative Poverty on Children's Cognitive Ability and Achievement
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Guo, Guang |
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The Timing of the Influences of Cumulative Poverty on Children's Cognitive Ability and Achievement Social Forces 77,1 (September 1998): 257-287. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3006017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children, Home Environment; Children, Poverty; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Development; Genetics; Memory for Digit Span (WISC) - also see Digit Span; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Is childhood such a critical period by the end of this period, cumulative poverty would have exerted maximum effect on children's cognitive outcomes? Or are cognitive outcomes more a function of the length of exposure to poverty regardless of the life stage in which the child is exposed to poverty? The NLSY, which measures each child's cognitive development repeatedly over time, was analyzed to answer these questions. We distinguish between ability and achievement. Ability is a more stable trait than achievement and tends to be determined by both environmental and genetic factors early in life. Achievement on the other hand is more acquired. This study shows that long-term poverty has substantial influences on both ability and achievement, but the time patterns of these influences are distinctly different. Childhood appears to be a much more crucial period for the development of cognitive ability than early adolescence. In contrast, poverty experienced in adolescence appears to be more influential to adolescent achievement than poverty experienced earlier in life. |
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Guo, Guang. "The Timing of the Influences of Cumulative Poverty on Children's Cognitive Ability and Achievement." Social Forces 77,1 (September 1998): 257-287.
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