Persistent poverty and children's cognitive development: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Author: Dickerson, A
Popli, G
Description:
CLS Working Paper 2012/2 Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, the authors document the impact that poverty, and in particular persistent poverty, has on their cognitive development in their early years. Using both regression-based seemingly unrelated regressions estimation (SURE) and structural equation modelling (SEM), we show that children born into poverty have significantly lower test scores at ages 3, 5 and 7, and that continually living in poverty in their early years has a cumulative negative impact on their cognitive development.
Date published: 13/06/2012
Date posted: 13/06/2012