Children from less well-off families are at greater risk than wealthier children for poor cognitive, behavioral and health outcomes. If these associations between children's outcomes and the economic status of their families reflect causal relationships—so that the poorer outcomes of less wealthy children can be attributed to their low incomes—they have implications for the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Children who have worse cognitive, behavioral and health outcomes may be more likely to obtain less education and have lower earnings as adults, and to go on to rear their children in poorer environments. This line of reasoning suggests that policies and programs that improve outcomes for low-income children may break—or at least …show more content…
A critical issue is whether the estimated effects of income on children's outcomes are biased. There are two types of problems that are likely to lead to biased estimates. One is measurement error in income. If the measurement of income is noisy, then classic attenuation bias will bias the coefficient on income toward zero. A similar result will occur if children's outcomes depend on “permanent” rather than transitory income. A common finding from previous research is that the estimated effects of income on children's outcomes are larger when income is averaged over multiple years (see, for example, Blau, 1999, Korenman et al., 1995 and Mayer, 1997). This is consistent with the idea that there is measurement error in income—which is reduced via averaging—or that permanent rather than transitory income is the key determinant of children's outcomes. In this paper, we address this potential problem by averaging family income over the 3 years of our data. The fact that the children in this sample are only age 3, and that we have up to three data points on income over the 3 years (at birth, 1 year post-birth, and 3 years post-birth) gives us confidence that we have a fairly accurate measure of a family's economic resources during the child's lifetime to date. In addition, we experiment with an IV method designed to account for measurement error bias (but not other sources of bias) in our
It is not difficult to document that poor children suffer a disproportionate share of deprivation, hardship, and bad outcomes. More than 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $23,550 a year for a family of four. (Truman, 2005) Living in poverty rewires children 's brains and reports show that it produces prolonged effects. Also, growing up in a community with dangerous streets, gangs, confused social expectations, discouraging role models, and few connections to outsiders commanding resources becomes a burden for any child. The concern about the number of children living in poverty arises from our knowledge of the problems children face because of poverty.
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The impact of growing up in foster care creates a plethora of barriers, inhibiting a foster youths chances of attending college and finding academic success. It is estimated that 65% of foster youth will emancipate into homelessness, less than 3% will go to college and 51% will be unemployed (Children Uniting Nations, 2015). Serval major factors serve as barriers including home mobility, school mobility, mental health concerns, social difficulties, lack of financial support, lack of access to college, and social difficulties.
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explains that the economic gap between high and low income families is affecting their children as
What does it mean for someone to be on the lines of poverty or living in poverty? What is this word that is falsely used and missed analyzed? Poverty is the state of being extremely poor or being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. In 2010, 16.4 million children, or 22.0 percent, were poor in the United States alone. (Tanner, 2014) The poverty rate for children also varies substantially by race and origin. If the rate of poverty continues to rise, will there be any hope left in humanity? The real question is not what is poverty but why is there so many people living in it. The ideal job of the government (federal and state) is to create a better/safer environment for the people. The model the “government” campaign is that everything they do is for the “benefit” of the people. When does the word “benefit” come into play when twenty-two percent of the population cannot supply a place for their children to sleep, put food on the table, and get a job that pays well enough to support their family. Are there any real benefits knowing families living in poverty have only one percent of a chance of getting out? Who is to blame? Where and how did this problem all start? What is this so called “government” doing to help stop the increasing rate of poverty? As you read this essay, it will explain what it means to be truly poor and why the government does so little to help. Include real stories from people living in poverty, what the government is doing to help (and if it’s enough), and is the problem of poverty becoming worst or slowly rising to become better.
Parents reported target children’s ethnicities as 38% non-Hispanic White, 30% Latino/Hispanic, 15% African American, 8.5% Asian, and 8.5% “Other” (primarily of mixed ethnicity).” The amount of income per family was roughly from, $32,000–$82,000, the lowest being just under $2,000 and the highest being just over
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