Dickerson, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3059-0908 and Popli, G.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-2919-2627 (2016) Persistent poverty and children's cognitive development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179 (2). pp. 535-558. ISSN 0964-1998
Abstract
We use data from the four sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study of children born at the turn of the 21st century to document the effect that poverty, and in particular persistent poverty, has on their cognitive development in their early years. Using structural equation modelling, we show that children born into poverty have significantly lower test scores at age 3, age 5 and age 7 years, and that continually living in poverty in their early years has a cumulative negative effect on their cognitive development. For children who are persistently in poverty throughout their early years, their cognitive development test scores at age 7 years are almost 20 percentile ranks lower than children who have never experienced poverty, even after controlling for a wide range of background characteristics and parental investment.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
Keywords: | Child poverty; Cognitive development |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2016 11:51 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2016 11:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12128 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/rssa.12128 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109697 |