How much does childhood poverty affect the life chances of children?
How much does childhood poverty affect the life chances of children?
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DOI：
10.2307/2657556
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发表时间：
1998-06-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Smith, JR
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作者：
Duncan, GJ;Yeung, WJ;Smith, JR
为什么父母的社会经济地位与儿童和成人成就的各种衡量标准密切相关，这是一个重要而有争议的研究问题。在总结了最近对这一文献的贡献的发现之后，我们使用收入动态面板研究中的德尔塔进行了两组分析。完成学业和非婚生育与儿童早期和中期以及青春期的父母收入有关。这些分析表明，幼儿期的家庭经济条件对成绩的影响最大，特别是在低收入家庭的儿童中。兄弟姐妹模型的估计支持了这一假设，即幼儿期的经济条件是完成学校教育的重要决定因素。
Why parental socioeconomic status correlates strongly with various measures of child and adult achievement is an important and controversial research question. After summarizing findings from recent contributions to this literature, we conduct two sets Of analyses using delta from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Completed schooling and nonmarital childbearing are related to parental income during early and middle childhood, as well as during adolescence. These analyses suggest that family economic conditions in early childhood have the greatest impact on achievement, especially among children in families with low incomes. Estimates from sibling models support the hypothesis that economic conditions in early childhood are important determinants of completed schooling.