Whatever short-term resources have been won by relief groups in leveraging our human instincts toward guilt and compassion, however, have been Pyrrhic victories. As images of violence and pain have become more commonplace, they have not only lost their power to inspire, but actually created an u...
We describe developmental deficits in early childhood associated with longterm poverty in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). We compare estimates of the effects of long-term poverty (based on a 13-year average of income) to estimates of the effects of poverty based on a single ...
Recent initiatives have promoted the participation of fathers in the early care of their children. To assess the results of a program to encourage parental involvement in childbirth. Parents of healthy term newborns were randomly allocat... VU Hernán,TG Rosario,RC Isidora,... - 《Revista Chilen...
…Already, America’s elderly suffer a far higher rate of poverty – defined as half the median income or lower – than their peers in other high-income countries. …the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom, 12% in Canada, 4.4% in Fr...
However, we also adjust for selection into poverty to differentiate between differentials based on needs or other factors. Hence, following Heckman selection methods, we estimate Eq. (3) using a probit model to obtain a correction term for this selection, and then adjust for this selection when...
Results: Amygdala reactivity to implicitly processed fearful faces was positively correlated with childhood income-to-need in adult females but not males. On the other hand, activation in dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal regions during emotion regulation by reappraisal was positively correlated with...
In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy, the working poor have become even more of an issue. This pa...
One positive consequence of mobility has been a better use of individual aptitude. This has been aided by the expansion of educational opportunities in modern industrial nations. On the negative side, a high rate of vertical mobility may produce individual and societalanomie(a term coined by the ...
Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor ofpovertyand inequality in education at Stanford University. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 Povertyhas been understood in many different ways. ...
The term poverty refers to the state or condition in which people or communities lack the financial resources and other essentials for a minimumstandard of living. As such, they cannot meet their basic human needs. People and families who live in poverty may go without proper housing, clean wa...