Early Childhood Development, Human Capital, and Poverty

Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD POVERTY Early Childhood Poverty and Inflammation in Adulthood

Research on the association between childhood poverty and adult cardiovascular illness has suggested that inflammation may be a key mediator explaining the differences in cardiovascular risk. A limitation of this literature is that studies have primarily examined childhood economic status retrospectively or at only one point in time. This study uses data (n = 919) from the US Panel Study of Inc...

Poverty and behavior problems during early childhood

Poverty is a well-established risk factor for behavior problems, yet our understanding of putative family mediators during early childhood (i.e., before age 5 years) is limited. The present study investigated whether the association between poverty and behavior problems during early childhood is mediated simultaneously by perceived parenting, family dysfunction and/or maternal depression sympto...

Conspicuous Consumption , Human Capital , and Poverty ∗

Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a trade-off between conspicuous consumpt...

The Human Capital Dynamic Linkage in Early Childhood Development: How Pre-Kindergarten Experience Affects Schooling Outcomes

This paper uses a multi-stage education model to identify the human capital dynamic linkage in early childhood development, namely how children’s pre-kindergarten human capital levels affect their schooling efficiency and outcomes. The human capital dynamic linkage is significantly positive, and estimation without controlling for endogeneity is downward biased. The human capital dynamic linkage...

The Long Reach of Early childhood poverty