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Title: Ebbing and Flowing, Learning and Growing: Transitions in Family Economic Resources and Children's Development
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Moore, Kristin Anderson Morrison, Donna Ruane Zaslow, Martha J. Glei, Dana A. |
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Ebbing and Flowing, Learning and Growing: Transitions in Family Economic Resources and Children's Development Working Paper, Child Trends, Inc., Washington DC, September 1995 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Child Trends, Inc. Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Child Development; Children, Well-Being; Cognitive Development; Family Background and Culture; Family Resources; Family Studies; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Welfare Revised and under review. Direct correspondence to Kristin A. Moore, 4301 Connecticut Ave., Suite 100, Washington DC, 20008. This paper examines transitions into and from welfare and poverty across the time period from 1986 to 1990. and their implications for children's math achievement, reading skills, and behavior and the level of emotional support and cognitive stimulation provided in children's homes. Analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement indicate that even with controls for factors that select family into poverty, children who do not experience poverty or welfare over this time period are advantaged relative to children who experience poverty or welfare; and that children who are continuously poor but never receive welfare have fewer behavior problems as reported by their mothers than children who receive welfare. Among children experiencing changing economic circumstances, if the family manages to leave poverty child outcomes are more positive; and children whose families fall from above the poverty level into welfare experience high levels of behavior problems. Frequent fluctuations in family economic circumstances are also associated with poorer child outcomes. |
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Moore, Kristin Anderson, Donna Ruane Morrison, Martha J. Zaslow and Dana A. Glei. "Ebbing and Flowing, Learning and Growing: Transitions in Family Economic Resources and Children's Development." Working Paper, Child Trends, Inc., Washington DC, September 1995. |