Family poverty and neighborhood poverty: Links with children's school readiness before and after the Great Recession

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dc.citation.firstpage368en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleChildren and Youth Services Reviewen_US
dc.citation.lastpage384en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber79en_US
dc.contributor.authorWolf, Sharonen_US
dc.contributor.authorMagnuson, Katherine A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKimbro, Rachel T.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-12T17:25:30Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-12-12T17:25:30Zen_US
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how neighborhood and family poverty predict children's academic skills and classroom behavior at school entry, and whether associations have changed over a period of twelve years spanning the Great Recession. Utilizing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten 1998 and 2010 cohorts and combined with data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey, we find that the proportion of kindergarten children living in moderate and high poverty neighborhoods increased from 1998 to 2010, and that these increases were most pronounced for non-poor and white children. Using OLS and fixed effects regression analyses and holding family poverty constant, we find that children in neighborhoods with higher levels of poverty start school less ready to learn than their peers. Specifically, children from the highest poverty neighborhoods start school almost a year behind children from the lowest poverty neighborhoods in terms of their academic skills. In addition, we find that the academic skills gap between poor- and non-poor children within neighborhood poverty categories grew from 1998 to 2010, particularly in high poverty neighborhoods. These findings appear to be explained both by changes in the composition of families within neighborhood poverty categories and income increases among non-poor families. The findings indicate that neighborhood poverty may be a useful proxy to identify children and families in need of additional support.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWolf, Sharon, Magnuson, Katherine A. and Kimbro, Rachel T.. "Family poverty and neighborhood poverty: Links with children's school readiness before and after the Great Recession." <i>Children and Youth Services Review,</i> 79, (2017) Elsevier: 368-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.040.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalnihms-984695en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.040en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/107874en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevieren_US
dc.subject.keywordNeighborhood povertyen_US
dc.subject.keywordThe Great Recessionen_US
dc.subject.keywordSchool readinessen_US
dc.subject.keywordEarly childhood developmenten_US
dc.subject.keywordFamily povertyen_US
dc.titleFamily poverty and neighborhood poverty: Links with children's school readiness before and after the Great Recessionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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