Geography of intergenerational mobility and child development.

Autor:	Donnelly L; Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; louisjd@princeton.edu mclanaha@princeton.edu.; Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544., Garfinkel I; School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.; Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027., Brooks-Gunn J; Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY 10027.; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027., Wagner BG; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409., James S; Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.; Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544., McLanahan S; Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; louisjd@princeton.edu mclanaha@princeton.edu.; Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2017 Aug 29; Vol. 114 (35), pp. 9320-9325. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Aug 15.
DOI:	10.1073/pnas.1700945114
Abstrakt:	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 ∼20% 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. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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