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Poverty, Welfare Reform, and

after school programs, family programs

Brooks-Gunn J, Duncan GJ.
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GJ Duncan, J Brooks-Gunn - Social class, poverty, and education …, 2001 - books.google.com

In 1997, some 13.4 million children lived in families in which total income failed to exceed even the spartan thresholds (eg, $12,802 for a family of three) used to define poverty (US …

Objectively measured patterns of physical activity in primary school children in Coventry: the influence of ethnicity

after-school interventions

Duncan MJ.
GSID: 422GtfQDwKUJ
ELJ Eyre, MJ Duncan, EC Smith… - Diabetic medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library

… Europeans, mainly attributable to differences in after-school activity. Ethnically tailored interventions should explore whether physical activity can … in after-school activity, with higher levels of after-school activity in White European children compared with their South Asian peers. …

Associations between children's independent mobility and physical activity

Non-school settings

Schoeppe S, Duncan MJ, Badland HM, Oliver M.
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S Schoeppe, MJ Duncan, HM Badland, M Oliver… - BMC Public Health, 2014 - Springer

… for differences in epoch length settings across sites. Sixty … non-school destinations will likely also influence their physical activity levels [48], besides the commuting itself. However, detailed information on what leisure-time activities children specifically engaged in at non-school...

Family poverty, welfare reform, and child development

after school programs, family programs

Duncan GJ, Brooks‐Gunn J.
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GJ Duncan, J Brooks‐Gunn - Child development, 2000 - Wiley Online Library

Our review of research suggests that family poverty has selective effects on child development. Most important for policy are indications that deep or persistent poverty early in childhood affects adversely the ability and achievement of children. Although the 1996...

Work-based antipoverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children

after school programs, family programs

Huston AC, Duncan GJ, McLoyd V.
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AC Huston, GJ Duncan, R Granger, J Bos, V McLoyd… - Child development, 2001 - JSTOR

… family functioning and developmental outcomes for preschool- and school-aged children (N = 913). New Hope offered wage supplements sufficient to raise family … , lessons, and community centers to provide supervision after school. We expected that New Hope...

Early predictors of high school mathematics achievement

high school

Siegler RS, Duncan GJ, Davis-Kean PE.
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RS Siegler, GJ Duncan, PE Davis-Kean… - Psychological …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com

… in high school, as opposed to having influenced earlier learning but no longer being directly influential, we would expect strong concurrent relations between high school … elementary school children’s division knowledge and their mathematics proficiency in high school...

Quasi-experimental evidence on short-and long-term consequences of bullying victimization: A meta-analysis

quasi-experimental designs

Schoeler T, Duncan L, Cecil CM, Ploubidis GB.
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T Schoeler, L Duncan, CM Cecil, GB Ploubidis… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org

… This meta-analysis of quasi-experimental studies suggests that bullying victimization leads to poorer developmental outcome in the short-term, including higher internalizing and externalizing symptoms and reduced academic achievement. These adverse effects diminish in the …

The notable and the null: Using mixed methods to understand the diverse impacts of residential mobility programs

after school programs, family programs

DeLuca S, Duncan GJ.
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S DeLuca, GJ Duncan, M Keels… - … effects research: New …, 2012 - Springer

… , the potential for neighbourhood interventions and the challenges of social programs meant to improve the lives of very disadvantaged families. … The teachers are willing to work with you and help you and tutor you after school,...

Optimal indicators of socioeconomic status for health research

socioeconomic status & related terms (e.g., low income)

Duncan GJ, Daly MC.
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GJ Duncan, MC Daly… - American journal of …, 2002 - ajph.aphapublications.org

… Persistent low income and income volatility may be … the relative merit of short-term vs long-term appraisal of selected indicators. … For example, women receive lower income returns from …

Reducing poverty through preschool interventions

interventions

Duncan GJ, Ludwig J, Magnuson KA.
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GJ Duncan, J Ludwig, KA Magnuson - The Future of Children, 2007 - JSTOR

… Our proposed program is modeled after early childhood interventions that, according to the best available evidence, appear to generate … It combines what we believe are likely to be the "active ingredients" behind the success of previous interventions,...

New Hope for People with Low Incomes: Two-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare

after school programs, family programs

Duncan GJ, Huston AC.
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JM Bos, AC Huston, RC Granger, GJ Duncan… - 1999 - ERIC

The New Hope Demonstration provides awealth of information on an issue high on the domestic policy agenda: how to improve the well-being of people who are poor. New Hope …

The role of family socioeconomic resources in the black–white test score gap among young children

after school programs, family programs

Duncan GJ, Magnuson KA.
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KA Magnuson, GJ Duncan - Developmental Review, 2006 - Elsevier

This paper reviews evidence on the family origins of racial differences in young children's test scores and considers how much of the gap is due to differences in the economic and …

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