Reyes Carolyn B, Randell Heather
308 Armsby Building, University Park, 16801 USA Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, The Pennsylvania State University.
Popul Res Policy Rev. 2023;42(3):44. doi: 10.1007/s11113-023-09787-x. Epub 2023 May 16.
This paper explores the linkages between exposure to household shocks across early life and children's educational and well-being outcomes in Peru. We use longitudinal survey data for a sample of 1713 children from five rounds of the Young Lives Survey to investigate how exposure to shocks across early life is linked to test scores and well-being in adolescence and to determine the extent to which critical periods of shock exposure exist. We expand on prior work by assessing the relationship between early childhood shocks and broader metrics of adolescent well-being beyond cognitive outcomes and by evaluating the cumulative impact of shocks over the course of a child's early life. We find that exposure to a greater number of shocks across early life is negatively associated with reading and vocabulary test scores. In addition, shock exposure in adolescence-versus earlier in childhood-has the strongest negative association with testing and well-being outcomes, suggesting that older children's time and household resources may be diverted away from learning and well-being in response to shocks. In light of increasingly frequent and severe weather events associated with climate change, as well as recent large-scale economic and health crises, policies aimed at supporting the most vulnerable children should be considered to alleviate the negative consequences of shocks on children's educational outcomes and well-being.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-023-09787-x.
本文探讨了秘鲁儿童早年生活中遭受家庭冲击与儿童教育及幸福结局之间的联系。我们使用了来自五轮“年轻生活调查”的1713名儿童样本的纵向调查数据，以研究早年生活中遭受冲击如何与青少年时期的测试成绩和幸福状况相关联，并确定存在冲击暴露关键期的程度。我们在先前研究的基础上进行拓展，评估幼儿期冲击与认知结果之外更广泛的青少年幸福指标之间的关系，并评估冲击在儿童早年生活过程中的累积影响。我们发现，早年生活中遭受更多冲击与阅读和词汇测试成绩呈负相关。此外，青少年期遭受冲击——与童年早期相比——与测试及幸福结局的负相关最强，这表明年龄较大儿童的时间和家庭资源可能会因应对冲击而从学习和幸福方面被转移。鉴于与气候变化相关的极端天气事件日益频繁和严重，以及近期大规模的经济和健康危机，应考虑制定旨在支持最脆弱儿童的政策，以减轻冲击对儿童教育成果和幸福的负面影响。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s11113-023-09787-x获取的补充材料。
