What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances

By Emmanuel J. Lopez. 2008

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Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development (2010, background): “The second perspective, the investment model (IM), proposes that economic resources increase the investments parents make in their children’s development, thus promoting a wide range of academic and social competencies that accrue to the benefit of the child (Bradley & Corwyn, 2002; Mayer, 1997).”
The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development (2007, unknown): “Because income averaged over multiple years is the best estimate of ‘permanent income’ (Blau, 1999; Mayer, 1997), a four-year average (1994-1997) is used when the data are available.”
The Influence of Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood on Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes (2007, unknown): “…et al., 1994; Gottschalk, 1996; Moffitt, 1992; Pepper, 2000; Vartanian, 1999), school dropouts (e.g. Clark, 1992; Gleason & Vartanian, 1999; Mayer, 1997; Sawhill & Chadwick, 1999), crime (e.g. Freeman, 1991; Grogger, 1997; Peeples & Loeber, 1994; Sullivan, 1989), teen childbearing (e.g.…”
The mechanisms mediating the effects of poverty on children’s intellectual development (2000, background): “Poor children’s homes are much more likely than others to have open cracks in the wall and ceiling, holes in the floor, a leaky roof, signs of rats, and exposed wires, or to be overcrowded (Mayer 1997).”
Economics of child labour (2013, background): “Incrementing the resources available to parents may not improve child welfare if parents are incompetent, myopic or selfish (Mayer, 1997 as explained in Bhalotra, 2004).”
Food insecurity and disability: Do economic resources matter? (2010, background): “It is considered more appropriate for this study than the direct income measure because the USDA needs standard takes into account a household’s annual food needs (Mayer, 1997).”
Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes (2016, result): “These results are consistent with those found, among others, by Mayer (1997), Blau (1999), Dooley and Stewart (2007) and Fiorini and Keane (2014).”
Home literacy environments and children's reading performance: a comparative study of 25 countries (2008, background): “Examining the effects on children's outcomes in the USA, Mayer ( 1997 ) argues that, once the basic material needs of children are met through governmental welfare support, additional improvement in family income would do little to affect children's outcomes.”
Do parental assets matter for children's educational attainment?: Evidence from mediation tests (2011, background): “Recent academic work poses questions about how other (usually unmeasured) characteristics may mediate the ways in which parental economic status affects children’s educational outcomes (Mayer, 1997; Orr, 2003; Williams Shanks, 2007; Williams Shanks, Kim, Loke, Destin, 2010; Yeung & Conley, 2008; Zha”
What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes (2011, background): “Although the linear specification is 1See surveys by Mayer (1997), Solon (1999) and Almond and Currie (2010) 2While the IV estimates reported in Oreopoulos et al. (2005), Dahl and Lochner (2008) and Milligan and Stabile (2007) suggest some positive effects of family income on children’s (short-run)…”
Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key? (2015, background): “While some have questioned the importance of financial resources in the intergenerational transmission process (Mayer 1997), others believe this factor to be key (Becker 1964).”
The Relationship between Income and Material Hardship (2008, unknown): “Experiences of food insufficiency and having utilities shut off, 22 and 10 percent, respectively, were similar to those reported by Mayer and Jencks (1989) from a survey of Chicago residents that oversampled poor families.”
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit (2012, unknown): “These concerns have prevented the literature from reaching a consensus on whether family income has a causal eﬀect on child development (see Duncan and Brooks-Gunn (1997), Haveman and Wolfe (1995), Mayer (1997)).”