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Title: Poverty Dynamics and Cognitive Development Among Young Children
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Miller, Jane E. Korenman, Sanders D. |
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Poverty Dynamics and Cognitive Development Among Young Children Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children, Preschool; Cognitive Development; Disadvantaged, Economically; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Income; Mothers, Education; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Social Influences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use prospectively collected information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979-198 to estimate the relation between timing of poverty and several measures of children's cognitive development, including tests of picture vocabulary, reading, mathematics, and motor and social development. Deficits are greatest among children who were poor between birth and age three; deficit are also notable for the prenatally poor. Differentials according to poverty status remain sizeable even in models that also control for other correlates of poverty, including low mother's educational attainment, young age at first birth and single parent family structure. There is evidence that deficit associated with poverty are persistent, cumulative, and interactive across age intervals. Aspects of the home environment measured by the HOME score is a significant mediator between economic deprivation and cognitive development. Maternal academic aptitude is also associated with both poverty and developmental scores. |
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Miller, Jane E. and Sanders D. Korenman. "Poverty Dynamics and Cognitive Development Among Young Children." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995. |