Poverty and Outcomes
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published ‘Does money affect children’s outcomes?’. The report finds strong evidence of a causal relationship between household financial resources and children’s outcomes. Key points include:
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published ‘Does money affect children’s outcomes?’. The report finds strong evidence of a causal relationship between household financial resources and children’s outcomes. Key points include:
- Children in lower-income families have worse cognitive, social-behavioural and health outcomes
- Increasing household income could substantially reduce differences in schooling outcomes, while also improving wider aspects of children’s wellbeing
- A given sum of money makes significantly more difference to children in low income households, but still helps children in better off households
- Money in early childhood makes most difference to cognitive outcomes, while in later childhood and adolescence it makes more difference to social and behavioural outcomes
- Longer term poverty affects children’s outcomes more severely than short term poverty
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