Contents
Chapter 1. Poor Families, Poor Outcomes: The Well-Being of Children and Youth / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and Nancy Maritato
Chapter 2. Poverty Trends / Donald J. Hernandez
Chapter 3. Parent Absence or Poverty: Which Matters More? / Sara S. McLanahan
Chapter 4. Trends in the Economic Well-Being and Life Chances of America's Children / Susan E. Mayer
Chapter 5. Effects of Long-Term Poverty on Physical Health of Children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth / Sanders Korenman and Jane E. Miller
Chapter 6. Poverty and Patterns of Child Care / The NICHD Child Care Research Network
Chapter 7. Consequences of Living in Poverty for Young Children's Cognitive and Verbal Ability and Early School Achievement / Judith R. Smith, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela K. Klebanov
Chapter 8. Economic Resources, Parental Practices, and Children's Well-Being / Thomas L. Hanson, Sara McLanahan, and Elizabeth Thomson
Chapter 9. Psychosocial Morbidity Among Poor Children in Ontario / Ellen L. Lipman and David R. Offord
Chapter 10. Family Economic Hardship and Adolescent Adjustment: Mediating and Moderating Processes / Rand D. Conger, Katherine Jewsbury Conger, and Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Chapter 11. The Influence of Poverty on Children's Classroom Placement and Behavior Problems / Linda Pagani, Bernard Boulerice, and Richard E. Tremblay
Chapter 12. The Role of Family Income and Sources of Income in Adolescent Achievement / H. Elizabeth Peters and Natalie C. Mullis
Chapter 13. Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment / Jay D. Teachman, Kathleen M. Paasch, Randal D. Day, and Karen P. Carver
Chapter 14. Childhood Poverty and Adolescent Schooling and Fertility Outcomes: Reduced-Form and Structural Estimates / Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Kathryn Wilson
Chapter 15. Race, Sex, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty / Mary Corcoran and Terry Adams
Chapter 16. The Effects of Parents' Income, Wealth, and Attitudes on Children's Completed Schooling and Self-Esteem / William Axinn, Greg J. Duncan, and Arland Thornton
Chapter 17. Does Poverty in Adolescence Affect the Life Chances of High School Graduates? / Robert M. Hauser and Megan M. Sweeney
Chapter 18. Income Effects Across the Life Span: Integration and Interpretation / Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
References
Index