Family poverty, welfare reform, and child development.

By G. Duncan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. Child Development, 2000

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Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Mothers’ literacy beliefs: Connections with the home literacy environment and pre-school children’s literacy development (2006, background): “household income (e.g. Brody et al., 1994; Duncan and Brooks-Gunn, 2000; Mantzicopoulos, 1997) and parents’ literacy levels (Gilger et al.”
Child Development in the Context of Adversity (2012, background): “It is well established that the material and psychosocial contexts of poverty adversely affect multiple aspects of development in children (Bradley & Corwin, 2002; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000; Noble, McCandliss, & Farah, 2007).”
Welfare Reform: How Do We Measure Success? (2002, background): “24 Reports of child maltreatment and neglect are higher in low-income and welfare dependent families than other families, and the effects on children’s healthy development are well-documented (Fein & Lee 2000; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn 2000).”
Can Early Childhood Curriculum Enhance Social-Emotional Competence in Low-Income Children? A Meta-Analysis of the Educational Effects (2018, background): “Low-income children are more likely to live in a chaotic home environment and have more negative daily interactions with their parents (Bobbitt & Gershoff, 2016; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000; Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, & Klebanov, 1994).”
Do You Believe In Magic?: What We Can Expect From Early Childhood Intervention Programs (2003, background): “Our research on the impact of low income on children is summarized in several places (Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 1997; 2000).”
Strengthening school readiness for Head Start children: Evaluation of a self-regulation intervention (2015, background): “A great deal of research suggests that poverty adversely affects many aspects of children’s development (Bradley & Corwyn, 2002; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000).”
The Impact and Consequences of Partner Abuse on Partners (2012, background): “Factors of social and economic disadvantage are also related to community violence (e.g., Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000; Selner-O’Hagan, Kindlon, Buka, Raudenbush, & Earls, 1998) which can moderate the effects of IPV on victims.”
Sensation-Seeking, Risk-Taking, and Problematic Financial Behaviors of College Students (2010, background): “Individuals growing up in low-income homes face more difficult hurdles in their early transition to adulthood due to lack of social and financial capital (Bergin et al. 2006; Besharov 1999; Cao 2008; Duncan and Brooks-Gunn 2000 ).”
Developing Low-Income Preschoolers’ Social Studies and Science Vocabulary Knowledge Through Content-Focused Shared Book Reading (2010, background): “Compared to children from higher income households, many children growing up in low-income homes experience substantially less opportunity for language development, including limited opportunity to engage in literacy activities with parents ( Evans, 2004 ), impoverished home learning environments, i”
Family Reading Behavior and Early Literacy Skills in Preschool Children From Low-Income Backgrounds (2008, background): “For example, a review by Duncan and Brooks-Gunn (2000) reported that poor children are twice as likely to repeat a grade and fail to complete high school.”
Validity of the Dynamic Indicators for Basic Early Literacy Skills as an Indicator of Early Literacy for Urban Kindergarten Children (2006, background): “…ISSN 0279-6015 exposed to risk factors associated with poverty and urban environments are less likely to develop early literacy skills and more likely to evidence reading difficulties throughout elementary and secondary school (Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000; Juel, 1988; Stipek & Ryan, 1997).”
Variations in the Availability and Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care by Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods (2016, background): “One proposed mechanism for this effect is that families in lower SES communities experience less availability of social, health, and education services (Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000).”
Mothers' search for infant child care: the dynamic relationship between availability and desirability in a continental European welfare state (2008, background): “…decades, research has shown that poverty is harmful to the developing child, across all areas of development, and that early childhood is a particularly important stage (Adams & Rohacek, 2002; Burchinal, Preisner-Feinberg, Bryant, & Clifford, 2000; Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 2000; NICHD ECCRN, 2004).”