Poverty and Intellectual Development in Childhood.
Gordon Milligan, Erum Masood, Phil Quinlan, Sam Cox, Tom Giles, Armando Mendez Villalon, Christian Cole · 2024
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Gordon Milligan and co-authors study poverty and children's intellectual growth in a 2024 paper. Using linked records for nearly ninety thousand children born in Manitoba, Canada, they track how the timing and length of poverty, and mothers' mental health, relate to development. Two ways of defining poverty are compared, since the choice may change the answer.
A focused group of 7,424 children born in 2000 to 2002 had scores on all six development measures, spanning ages five to seventeen. Gaps tied to poverty and to poor maternal mental health were already clear at age five. The gaps looked much the same at age eight on a different measure. Household-based poverty showed the stronger link, a result with direct policy weight.
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| CREATOR | Gordon Milligan, Erum Masood, Phil Quinlan, Sam Cox, Tom Giles, Armando Mendez Villalon, Christian Cole |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |