The Development of Low Income Children in the Context of Welfare and Food Stamps

福利和食品券背景下低收入儿童的发展

• 批准号: 8440388
• 负责人: Kelly M Purtell
• 金额: $ 5.22万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8440388
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Adolescent; Affect; Buffers; Child; Child Development; Child Mental Health; Child health care; Childhood; Cognitive; Data; Development; Developmental Process; Disadvantaged; Economics; Elderly; Emotional; Equation; Family; Food; Goals; Growth; Incidence; Income; Investments; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Light; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Modeling; Nature; Outcome; Parents; Policies; Poverty; Public Assistance; Research; Resources; Risk; Social Welfare; Stress; Structural Models; Techniques; Time; Work; Youth; cohort; design; early childhood; elementary school; experience; interest; kindergarten; physical conditioning; programs; social; socioeconomics; sound; ward

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed research is to examine associations between family use of public assistance benefits, family contexts, and the development of low-income children and adolescents. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, this work will address three specific aims: 1) to examine unique relations between parents' use of public assistance programs, including income support (i.e., TANF) and in-kind support (i.e., food stamps), and children's physical health, mental health, and cognitive development, 2) to examine whether these relations vary according to the timing and duration of program use, and 3) to investigate family-level mediators and moderators of relations between public assistance benefits and children's developmental outcomes. A variety of analytic techniques will be employed to address these goals, including propensity score analysis, latent curve modeling, finite mixture modeling, and structural equation modeling. Results of this research will expand existing information concerning how public assistance benefits received by low-income families relate to children's development, provide a nuanced examination of how timing and duration of benefit use alter these relationships, and illuminate developmental processes through which macro-level policies can affect children's development.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的总体目标是研究家庭使用公共援助福利，家庭背景和低收入儿童和青少年发展之间的关系。使用来自幼儿纵向研究-幼儿园队列的全国代表性数据，本工作将解决三个具体目标：1)研究父母使用公共援助项目（包括收入支持（即TANF）和实物支持（即食品券））与儿童的身体健康、心理健康和认知发展之间的独特关系；2)研究这些关系是否根据项目使用的时间和持续时间而变化；3)研究家庭层面的公共援助福利与儿童发展结果之间关系的中介和调节因子。将采用各种分析技术来实现这些目标，包括倾向评分分析、潜在曲线建模、有限混合建模和结构方程建模。本研究的结果将扩展有关低收入家庭所接受的公共援助福利与儿童发展之间关系的现有信息，对福利使用的时间和持续时间如何改变这些关系进行细致入微的检查，并阐明宏观政策可以影响儿童发展的发展过程。