The Effect of Early Childhood Poverty

Almost universally neglected in the poverty scholarship is the timing of economic hardship across childhood and adolescence. Emerging research in neuroscience, social epidemiology and developmental psychology suggests that poverty early in a child's life may be particularly harmful. 

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Author: 

Greg Duncan,
Ariel Kalil,
Kathleen Ziol-Guest
Publisher: 
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Publication Date: 
December 2013