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Raver, C. Cybele – American Psychologist, 2012
Over 21% of children in the United States today are poor, and the income gap between our nation's richest and poorest children has widened dramatically over time. This article considers children's self-regulation as a key mediating mechanism through which poverty has deleterious consequences for their later life outcomes. Evidence from field…
Descriptors: Evidence, Policy Formation, Social Change, Poverty
Peskin, Janice – 1976
This technical paper summarizes what is known about the receipt of in-kind income; that is, benefits that take a non-cash form. These benefits may be provided by the government (food stamps, Medicare, etc.), or the private sector (health insurance, free housing, etc.). The problem addressed in the paper is the development of a theoretically…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Income, Low Income Groups, Measurement