The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life Chances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Wagmiller (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Mary Clare Lennon (Columbia University), Li Kuang (0000-0002-3265-2252, Columbia University), Philip M Alberti (0000-0002-3381-4882, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), J Lawrence Aber (0000-0001-8614-2963, New York University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 847-866 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000312240607100507 |
| OpenAlex | W1991103638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
| References cited | 77 |
Recent research suggests that child well-being and subsequent status attainment are influenced not only by the duration of exposure to economic disadvantage during childhood, but also by the timing and sequencing of exposure. Unfortunately, traditional measures of children's economic deprivation typically fail to differentiate between exposures to disadvantage at different stages in childhood and largely ignore how economic circumstances change over time. In this article, the authors propose a new method for assessing economic disadvantage during childhood that simultaneously captures children's overall levels of exposure to economic disadvantage as well as the timing and sequencing of their exposure. This new method uses finite mixture modeling to classify children into a limited number of classes with similar histories of exposure to economic disadvantage. With this new methodology, it is possible both to assess how family characteristics affect patterns of exposure to disadvantage and to directly test alternative theories about the effect that different patterns of exposure have on achievement. The authors find that extended exposure to economic deprivation during childhood is least favorable to early adulthood achievement, but that-at least for human capital formation-the timing and sequencing of poverty also are important
Affect (linguistics · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Disadvantage · Early childhood · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Life course approach · Political science · Poverty · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Consequences of Income Instability for Children's Well-Being
Impact of Misspecifications of the Latent Variance–Covariance and Residual Matrices on the Class Enumeration Accuracy of Growth Mixture Models
Poverty is Not Just an Indicator
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Duration of Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence
Family income trajectories and adverse outcomes in late adolescence
The Impact of Work and Family Life Histories on Economic Well-Being at Older Ages
What Do Children Know About Their Futures
Adult health returns to education by key childhood social and economic indicators
Health returns to education by family socioeconomic origins, 1980–2008
Poverty Dynamics and Academic Trajectories of Children of Immigrants
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes
Gender Differences in Biological Function in Young Adulthood
Age Trajectories of Poverty During Childhood and High School Graduation
Girls in Transition—How to Build Evidence and Gain Insight
Risk Factors for Persistent Child Poverty during the First Five Years of Life in Taiwan Birth Cohort Study
Poverty and Disadvantage throughout Childhood in the United States
Child Poverty in the United States
Early childhood predictors of early school‐age academic skills and resilience among children living in poverty
Crime and time
Trajectories of Work Disability and Economic Insecurity Approaching Retirement
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health Inequality
The transmission of social inequality
Does Relative Risk Aversion explain educational inequality? A dynamic choice approach
Inherited and social factors explaining early skills inequality
The Educational Legacy of Unauthorized Migration
Association between early income variation around poverty thresholds, income trajectories, and birth, child, and family characteristics
Income instability and child maltreatment
Native American children and school readiness
Predicting children's savings
Familial Transmission of Educational Plans and the Academic Self-Concept
The Educational Gradient in Health Among Children in Immigrant Families
Life-Course Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Migration Between Poor and Non-poor Neighborhoods
The psychology and behavioural economics of poverty
Lifecourse determinants and incomes in retirement
Social assistance trajectories among young adults in Finland
Immigration and social assistance
Association Between Socioeconomic Status and the Development of Asthma
Young Children’s Developmental Ecologies and Kindergarten Readiness
The Simultaneous Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Child Health on Children’s Cognitive Development
How Resource Dynamics Explain Accumulating Developmental and Health Disparities for Teen Parents’ Children
The Dynamics of U.S. Household Economic Circumstances Around a Birth
The evolution of fertility expectations over the life course
The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence
The Connection between Stigma, Power, and Life Chances
Association of Income and Adversity in Childhood with Adult Health and Well-Being
Poverty as a predictor of 4-year-olds' executive function
Interactive effects of early-life income harshness and unpredictability on children’s socioemotional and academic functioning in kindergarten and adolescence
The worried, the competitive and the indifferent—Approaches to the future in youth, their structural roots and outcomes in adult life
The Academic Advantage of Devotion
Growing Up in the Shadows
La educación secundaria y el distanciamiento familiar de la escuela. Un análisis longitudinal
Maternal Education, Changing Family Circumstances, and Children's Skill Development in the United States and UK
Effects of Prenatal Poverty on Infant Health
A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between changes in socio-economic status and changes in health
Family Structure Transitions and Child Development
Social Inequality and Health Across the Life Course
Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health
Childhood peer status and the clustering of social, economic, and health-related circumstances in adulthood
Internalising and externalising behaviour profiles across childhood
Early life circumstances and male suicide - A 30-year follow-up of a Stockholm cohort born in 1953
Does a college education reduce depressive symptoms in American young adults
The role of residential mobility in reproducing socioeconomic stratification during the transition to adulthood
College Education and Sense of Control
Past Due
A Burden of Support? Household Structure and Economic Resources Among Mexican Immigrant Families
Early Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Youth Delinquent Behavior in Fragile Families
Life Course Pathways of Economic Hardship and Mobility and Midlife Trajectories of Health
Cumulative Inequality in Child Health and Academic Achievement
Parental Health and Children's Economic Well-Being
New Directions in Life Course Research
The Longitudinal Revolution
The Long Arm of Religion
Neighborhood Poverty and Nonmarital Fertility
Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways
Do Different Methods for Modeling Age-Graded Trajectories Yield Consistent and Valid Results
The Legacy of Disadvantage
Children of Misfortune
Household Income Trajectories, PROGRESA-Oportunidades, and Child Well-being at Pre-school Age in Rural Mexico
Future Prospects, Deprivation, and Criminality - A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study
Specifying Criminogenic Strains
Childhood poverty dynamics and adulthood overweight/obesity
The relationship between lifetime health trajectories and socioeconomic attainment in middle age
The socioeconomic consequences of dropping out of high school
Spatial and temporal dimensions of neighborhood effects on high school graduation
Dynamic measures of primary and secondary school characteristics
Childhood Adversity and Trajectories of Disadvantage Through Adulthood
Neighborhood poverty
Minority education and caste
Black wealth, white wealth
Achievement in the First 2 Years of School
Change in Family Income-to-Needs Matters More for Children with Less
Income Is Not Enough
The development of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems from ages 18 to 37 in a U.S. national sample.
Model Selection and Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC)
Climbing out of Poverty, Falling Back in
Beyond SEM
An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data
Latent Variable Analysis
Finite Mixture Models
Analyzing developmental trajectories
Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development.
Integrating Person‐Centered and Variable‐Centered Analyses
Five Families
Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development
Poverty and the Distribution of Material Hardship
Linking Family Hardship to Children's Lives
The Truly Disadvantaged
Slipping into and out of Poverty
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States
The Effect of Income on Child Development
Entry Into School
Consequences of growing up poor
Long-term poverty and child development in the United States
Family Economic Hardship, Parental Support, and Adolescent Self-Esteem
Five Thousand American Families
Capturing Intervention Effects Over Time
Childhood events and circumstances influencing high school completion
The Relations Between Persistent Poverty and Contextual Risk and Children's Behavior in Elementary School
Modeling Growth in Boys' Aggressive Behavior Across Elementary School
Kinometrics
Socialization and development in a changing economy
Husband and Wife Differences in Response to Undesirable Life Events
The American occupational structure
Hard times and hurtful partners
Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development
How Money Matters for Young Children's Development
Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent
Economic Hardship and Marital Relations in the 1930s
Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health
How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children
Income Change, Parental Life Outlook, and Adolescent Expectations for Job Success
Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health
Relationship of Financial Strain and Psychosocial Resources to Alcohol Use and Abuse
Job Loss and Alcohol Abuse
The Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Black Adolescents
A SAS Procedure Based on Mixture Models for Estimating Developmental Trajectories
Wealth and Stratification Processes
Economic hardship in the family of origin and children's psychological well-Being in adulthood
Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects
How Many Latent Classes of Delinquent/ Criminal Careers? Results from Mixed Poisson Regression Analyses
Poverty and Welfare Patterns
The detailed age trajectory of oral vocabulary knowledge
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 86 |