Analyzing Differences in Child Well-Being Among U.S. States

O’Hare, William P.; Mather, Mark; Dupuis, Genevieve; Land, Kenneth C.; Lamb, Vicki L.; Fu, Qiang

doi:10.1007/s12187-012-9173-3

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“…According to Bradshaw et al (2007: 135), Bwell-being can be defined as the realization of children's rights and the fulfillment of the opportunity for every child to be all she or he can be.^In addition, according to the Child and Youth Well-Being Index (Land et al 2001: 243), Bthe overall well-being of children and young people ... is defined in terms of averages of social conditions encountered by children and young people.Â Furthermore, the seven domains of health, material well-being, education, risk and safety, family, personal well-being, and housing and the environment were selected as child well-being dimensions. Other studies in this area have similar dimensions (UNICEF 2007;Heshmati et al 2007) although in some studies different aspects of well-being such as school (OECD 2009) and social relationships (O'Hare et al 2013) have been considered. As our study shows, there were many differences in the CWBI scores among the provinces.…”

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A Territorial Analysis of Child Well-Being in Iran: Introducing a Multidimensional Index

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This is the first effort to construct a multidimensional index of child well-being in Iran. This index is composed of 26 indicators which cover the following aspects of child well-being: health, material well-being, education, risk and safety, family, personal wellbeing, and housing and the environment. Indicators were aggregated in special components, and these components eventually construct a single well-being index. The macro data was retrieved from national data centers to compute the province-level child well-being index for Iran. Results show that child well-being and its domains are distributed unequally among the provinces. Southern and eastern provinces have the worst condition while northern and central provinces have the best. Generally, Iranian children have made significant progress in recent years in education (such as literacy rate and high school graduation rate) and health (such as infant mortality rate and underweight children under 5 years of age). However, there are growing problems in the country, including child labor, high levels of exclusion from high school, a shortage of preschool education, and child abuse. Keywords Child well-being . Multidimensional index . Territorial analysis . Iran 1 BackgroundThere is a growing literature on child well-being, so that over the past decade, numerous references have addressed the assessment of child well-being and the

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A Territorial Analysis of Child Well-Being in Iran: Introducing a Multidimensional Index

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“…Rural-urban differences have been attributed to a number of variables including family income (e.g., O'Hare et al, 2013) and education (e.g., Provasnik et al, 2007). However, income appears to have the greatest positive impact on early academic skills in large urban areas rather than small urban, suburban, or rural contexts .…”

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Preschool Mathematics Performance and Executive Function: Rural-Urban Comparisons across Time

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Austin

Blevins‐Knabe

et al. 2020

Journal of Research in Childhood Education

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We thank the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Utah Office of Childcare for their support of this work.We are grateful to the parents, providers, and little children who participated so cheerfully in this study. 2 AbstractThis longitudinal study, with urban and rural preschool children, examines the relationship between executive function (EF) and mathematics. A panel of direct and indirect measures of EF were used to determine which EF measures were most predictive and a measure of mathematics assessed both numeracy and geometry skill. One hundred eighteen children, ages 39 to 68 months, and their preschool teachers were included, with assessments given twice, about six months apart. EF measures were compared by the amount of variance in mathematics skill each claimed, including the influence of a child's age, gender, and rural-urban context.Results suggest the child's age determines if a panel of direct EF measures is a better predictor of numeracy and geometry skills than the use of a single EF measure. Different EF measures were more strongly related to numeracy versus geometry at Time 1 and Time 2. Differences unrelated to income were found between rural and urban children on numeracy skill but not geometry skill.These results are particularly important to state and regional early childhood directors who work across urban and rural areas, legislators and policymakers, teachers and parents.

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“…Childhood and adolescence are particularly important stages in the lifecourse with regards to well-being (Ben-Arieh, 2008;Handbook of Child Well-Being, 2014). Numerous indices have emerged with the goal of capturing the well-being of children and adolescents in the United States (Buck et al, 2018;Land et al, 2001Land et al, , 2007Moore et al, 2007Moore et al, , 2008O'Hare & Bramstedt, 2003;O'Hare et al, 2013). However, these measures suffer from several issues that prevent more widespread usage.…”

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“…Numerous indices comprised of outcome indicators of child and adolescent wellbeing have been developed in recent decades. In the United States the most prominent are the Child and Youth Well-Being and the KIDS COUNT indices (Land et al, 2001(Land et al, , 2007O'Hare & Bramstedt, 2003;O'Hare et al, 2013). However, these indices have certain limitations that may prove significant.…”

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The Child and Adolescent Thriving Index 1.0: Developing a Measure of the Outcome Indicators of Well-Being for Population Health Assessment

Anderson

Markowitz²,

Eisenberg

et al. 2022

Child Ind Res

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The well-being of children and adolescents is emerging as an area of interest for population health measurement. Previous approaches assessing national and state trends in well-being have relied on composite indices. However, these methodologies suffer from several weaknesses. This paper develops an improved index for the United States that is measurable with existing population-data resources. It derives the appropriate weights for items in this index using a longitudinal panel of 2,942 children in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Candidate component measures are selected for the index based on their demonstrated association with several subjective scales assessed during young adulthood. The final index demonstrates that a broad range of measures indicate higher levels of population-level well-being. The predictive validity of the index for outcomes during young adulthood is also assessed: a one-standard-deviation increase in the index score is associated with a 7.9-percentage-point decrease [95% CI: 5.9 – 9.8] in ever reporting fair or poor health, a 6.3-percentage-point decrease [95% CI: 4.6 – 8.0] in ever reporting depression, and a 17.2% [95% CI: 13.7% – 20.5%] increase in peak earnings. These values for predictive validity are slightly higher than those of existing methodologies. We also find that incorporating contextual indicators from childhood and adolescence does not substantively improve predictive validity. Policy-makers and government agencies interested in population-level well-being of children and adolescents can continue to use existing indices as reasonable proxies, but should also commit to upgrading data systems to make them more child-centric in the future.

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Analyzing Differences in Child Well-Being Among U.S. States

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

A Territorial Analysis of Child Well-Being in Iran: Introducing a Multidimensional Index

A Territorial Analysis of Child Well-Being in Iran: Introducing a Multidimensional Index

Preschool Mathematics Performance and Executive Function: Rural-Urban Comparisons across Time

The Child and Adolescent Thriving Index 1.0: Developing a Measure of the Outcome Indicators of Well-Being for Population Health Assessment

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