The environment of childhood poverty
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2017-10-24
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Evans, Gary W.
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Abstract
One of the best predictors of physical and mental health along with cognitive development among children is poverty. But what psychosocial processes and experiences underlie these inequalities? In this talk professor Evans will summarize childhood correlates of poverty and then argue that one of the reasons for poverty’s impacts on children is exposure to cumulative physical and social risk factors.