Child Development: Poverty and Child Development

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  Housing and Healthy Child Development: Known and Potential Impacts of Interventions

  Housing is often described as an important determinant of health, but less commonly of child health. Despite acknowledgment of the importance of housing to ...

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  Safety Net Policies, Child Poverty, and Development Across the Lifespan

  The United States has developed an effective safety net of programs starting during the Great Depression, picking up steam in the War on Poverty of the ...

• Publication

  Neighborhood Effects on Children's Development in Experimental and Nonexperimental Research

  Children's neighborhood contexts are defined by rising socioeconomic inequality and segregation. This article reviews several decades of research on how ...

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  Poverty and Children's Language in Anthropolitical Perspective

  From the “verbal deprivation” and “restricted codes” of the 1960s to contemporary “language gap” discourses, deficit models of children's language have been ...

• Video

  Effects of the pandemic on the developing child

  Watch the replay of our live conversation about how Covid-19 and social distancing are affecting children now, and what to expect as we emerge from the pandemic