The persistence of poverty across generations: A view from two British cohorts
The persistence of poverty across generations: A view from two British cohorts
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贫困的代代相传：两个英国群体的观点
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2006
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J. Blanden
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Stephen G. Gibbons;J. Blanden
探索童年贫困是否会使成年贫困更有可能，以及这种模式如何随着时间的推移而变化。最近对减少英国儿童贫困程度的关注主要源于对贫困对儿童后期成就的未来后果的担忧。考虑到这一背景，我们显然必须更好地理解贫困成长的代价。本报告探讨了童年贫困与晚年贫困之间联系的强度，并询问了近几十年来这种联系是变得更强还是更弱。研究使用了20世纪70年代或80年代两个英国青少年群体的收入信息，并提出了这样一个问题：青少年父母的情况与他们30岁出头时的情况之间的贫困传递有多大？在所研究的两个群体之间，这种贫困传播的强度发生了多大变化？当一个人步入中年时，早期劣势的影响会持续到什么程度？
An exploration of whether childhood poverty makes adult poverty more likely, and how such patterns may have changed over time. The recent focus on reducing the extent of child poverty in the UK stems mainly from worries about the future consequences of poverty on children’s later achievement. With this background in mind, it is clearly crucial to improve our understanding of the costs of growing up poor. This report explores the strength of the link between childhood poverty and poverty later in life, and asks whether this link has grown stronger or weaker in recent decades. Using information on the incomes of two British cohorts who were teenagers either in the 1970s or in the 1980s, it asks: How large is the transmission of poverty between a teenager’s parents’ circumstances and their own circumstances when they are in their early 30s? By how much has the strength of this transmission of poverty changed between the two cohorts studied? How far do the effects of early disadvantage continue to be felt as individuals reach middle age?