Poverty is a powerful factor that can alter lifetime developmental trajectories in cognitive, socioemotional, and physical health outcomes. Most explanatory work on the underlying psychological processes of how poverty affects development has focused on parental investment and parenting practices, principally responsiveness. Our primary objective in this article was to describe a third, complem...

In this paper we use unique data to examine how college students from low income families for expectations about academic ability and to examine the role that learning about ability and a variety of other factors play in the in the college drop-out decision.

This paper examines the relationship between family structure and child poverty in Canada over the 1981-1997 period. While recognising the many methodological and conceptual difficulties encountered in efforts to document child poverty over time, two alternate indicators are used, Statistics Canada’s official low income cut-offs, and an alternate indicator of "deep poverty”. Using the Survey of...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of elderly Chinese people in Hong Kong. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING 18 elderly health centers in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS This study was based on a cohort aged 65 years or above who were enrolled in the Elderly Health Services from 1998 to 2005 in ...

Poverty is defined as a situation where person or family unable to meet the basic needs for survival, such clothing, food, shelter, and education. This study aims compare accuracy of Least Absolute Shrinkage Selection Operator (Lasso) regression method linear in predicting poverty levels Indonesia choose best model from two methods used. The results this indicate that algorithms used, namely al...

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Children's body mass index Body mass index trajectories Low birth weight infants Family and neighborhood poverty and children's BMI Ethnic differences and children's BMI The independent and joint effects of family and neighborhood poverty and ethnicity upon weight trajectories from age two to six-and-a-half were examined using data from the Infant Health and Deve...