Sentences with phrase «cognitive effects of poverty»

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Combining these areas of interest, she has worked on a variety of research projects exploring the bidirectional influences between child behavior problems, classroom quality, and teacher stress in preschool classrooms; the effects of educational instability in children's cognitive and self - regulation skills; and the relation between poverty - related risk and school readiness.

Controls for family transitions had little impact on estimates of the effects of family poverty: all poverty variables remain significantly associated with cognitive functioning at the age of 5 years, except for transient experiences of poverty at the age of 3 years only (npn), which showed no significant risk effect on pattern construction.

While the negative effects of both poverty and family structure on child development are well established, there is less knowledge about their relative impact on children's cognitive functioning.

Our findings might thus underestimate the negative effect of poverty and disadvantage on cognitive functioning.

It seems that taking into account parental characteristics considerably reduces the poverty effect, and the effects of family instability on cognitive functioning at the age of 5 years appear to be attributable to previous parental characteristics.

This study is the first to assess the relative effects of persisting poverty and family status transitions on children's cognitive functioning at the age of 5 years using a large, longitudinal, general population sample.

Adding indicators of living circumstances reduces the association between poverty and cognitive functioning, although associations between persistent and cumulative poverty, as well as early poverty at the age of 9 months remain significant in addition and above the effects of the other variables included in the model.

Our findings can help to close some gaps in the research literature, especially regarding the relative effects of family poverty and family instability on cognitive functioning during early childhood.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13

Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start.

Childhood poverty can set a child up for a lifetime of challenges that include cognitive, behavioral, social and emotional difficulties, with long - term effects of compromised educational and employment attainment.

The effects of poverty, combined with the trauma of living through a natural disaster, will not fade away easily: The experiences that Puerto Rico's young children have now will directly influence their long - term physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

This Brief summarizes findings from the impact evaluation of the Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme on schooling outcomes overall and for various subgroups: by sex, age group and cognitive ability.The findings underscore the importance of going beyond average treatment effects to analyse impacts by subgroup in order to unpack the programme effect

Regarding cognitive ability, early - life and prolonged exposure to poverty have been found to be particularly detrimental.30, 35,36 The literature points to a multitude of ways in which the parents» financial situation affects children's cognitive ability.35, 37 These include the more direct effects of poverty, such as poor diet, poor housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environment and inferior access to goods and activities that may stimulate cognitive development.

Using data from the NLSY and structural equation models, we have constructed five latent factors (cognitive stimulation, parenting style, physical environment, child's ill health at birth, and ill health in childhood) and have allowed these factors, along with child care, to mediate the effects of poverty and other exogenous variables.