Geography of intergenerational mobility and child development.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 114(35): 9320-9325, 2017 08 29.
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ABSTRACT
Recent research by Chetty and colleagues finds that children's chances of upward mobility are affected by the communities in which they grow up [Chetty R, Hendren N (2016) Working paper 23002]. However, the developmental pathways through which communities of origin translate into future economic gain are not well understood. In this paper we examine the association between Chetty and Hendren's county-level measure of intergenerational mobility and children's cognitive and behavioral development. Focusing on children from low-income families, we find that growing up in a county with high upward mobility is associated with fewer externalizing behavioral problems by age 3 years and with substantial gains in cognitive test scores between ages 3 and 9 years. Growing up in a county with 1 SD better intergenerational mobility accounts for â¼20% of the gap in developmental outcomes between children from low- and high-income families. Collectively, our findings suggest that the developmental processes through which residential contexts promote upward mobility begin early in childhood and involve the enrichment of both cognitive and social-emotional development.
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Assunto principal:
Classe Social
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Desenvolvimento Infantil
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Demografia
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Relação entre Gerações
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Risk_factors_studies
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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2017
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Article