A growing body of cognitive research uses sophisticated behavioral and neuroimaging
measurements to demonstrate associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) and …

This paper reviews the economic literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief
summary of the policy changes is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques …

Scholarship on work and family topics expanded in scope and coverage during the 2000–
2010 decade, spurred by an increased diversity of workplaces and of families, by …

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups,
and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives …

Social scientists do not agree on the size and nature of the causal impacts of parental
income on children's achievement. We revisit this issue using a set of welfare and …

The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we
do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain …

We examine the prediction of individuals' educational and occupational success at age 48
from contextual and personal variables assessed during their middle childhood and late …

This article assesses the consequences of poverty between a child's prenatal year and 5th
birthday for several adult achievement, health, and behavior outcomes, measured as late as …

This paper reports the results from a randomized clinical trial evaluating an adaptation of the
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies curriculum (PATHS) for preschool-age children in …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …