Does household income affect children's outcomes? A systematic review of the evidence

K Cooper, K Stewart - Child Indicators Research, 2021 - Springer
There is abundant evidence that children in low income households do less well than their
peers on a range of developmental outcomes. However, there is continuing uncertainty …

Fathers are parents, too! Widening the lens on parenting for children's development

NJ Cabrera, BL Volling, R Barr - Child Development …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Why do fathers matter? Recent conceptual and theoretical advances regarding father–child
relationships have demonstrated that fathers affect children's outcomes both directly and …

The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity

SV Troller-Renfree, MA Costanzo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Early childhood poverty is a risk factor for lower school achievement, reduced earnings, and
poorer health, and has been associated with differences in brain structure and function …

The neuroscience of socioeconomic status: Correlates, causes, and consequences

MJ Farah - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Human beings differ in their socioeconomic status (SES), with accompanying differences in
physical and mental health as well as cognitive ability. Although SES has long been used as …

Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic achievement

NL Hair, JL Hanson, BL Wolfe, SD Pollak - JAMA pediatrics, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Children living in poverty generally perform poorly in school, with markedly
lower standardized test scores and lower educational attainment. The longer children live in …

Income segregation between school districts and inequality in students' achievement

A Owens - Sociology of education, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Large achievement gaps exist between high-and low-income students and between black
and white students. This article explores one explanation for such gaps: income segregation …

The geography of racial/ethnic test score gaps

SF Reardon, D Kalogrides… - American Journal of …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …

Socioeconomic status and executive function: Developmental trajectories and mediation

DA Hackman, R Gallop, GW Evans… - Developmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts executive function (EF), but fundamental
aspects of this relation remain unknown: the developmental course of the SES disparity, its …

Recent trends in income, racial, and ethnic school readiness gaps at kindergarten entry

SF Reardon, XA Portilla - AERA open, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic achievement gaps between high-and low-income students born in the 1990s
were much larger than between cohorts born two decades earlier. Racial/ethnic …

Poverty is not just an indicator: the relationship between income, poverty, and child well-being

A Chaudry, C Wimer - Academic pediatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this article, we review the evidence on the effects of poverty and low income on children's
development and well-being. We argue that poverty is an important indicator of societal and …