2019
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5375
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Association of Behavior in Boys From Low Socioeconomic Neighborhoods With Employment Earnings in Adulthood

Abstract: Identifying early childhood behavioral problems associated with economic success/failure is essential for the development of targeted interventions that enhance economic prosperity through improved educational attainment and social integration. OBJECTIVE To test the association between kindergarten teacher-rated assessments of inattention, hyperactivity, opposition, aggression, and prosociality in boys with their employment earnings at age 35 to 36 years as measured by government tax return data. DESIGN, SETTI… Show more

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“…with lower rates of welfare use in this study, although prosociality approached but did not pass the significance threshold. The failure to find significant interactions between behaviors is consistent with at least two previous studies (Knapp et al, 2011;Vergunst et al, 2019a). No previous study to our knowledge has linked childhood externalizing behaviors and conduct problems to future welfare use, although several have linked these traits to earnings, with mixed results.…”
Section: Psychological Medicinesupporting
confidence: 90%
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“…with lower rates of welfare use in this study, although prosociality approached but did not pass the significance threshold. The failure to find significant interactions between behaviors is consistent with at least two previous studies (Knapp et al, 2011;Vergunst et al, 2019a). No previous study to our knowledge has linked childhood externalizing behaviors and conduct problems to future welfare use, although several have linked these traits to earnings, with mixed results.…”
Section: Psychological Medicinesupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Previous work has linked early childhood inattention (Feinstein, 2000;Vergunst et al, 2019aVergunst et al, , 2019b, poor socioemotional skills (Jones et al, 2015), negative peer relations (Feinstein, 2000), and low prosocial behavior (Vergunst et al, 2019b) with lower earnings in early adulthood. We extend these Fig.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Teacher ratings of inattention at age 6 years seemed to be associated with lower earnings for both sexes, whereas ratings of aggression-opposition were associated with lower earnings for males only, after adjustment for childhood IQ and family adversity, albeit with an effect size roughly half that of inattention; higher prosociality was associated with higher earnings for males. This study adds to a growing body of literature showing that childhood inattention, 4,6 antisocial behavior, 4,5 and low levels of prosociality 6,24,43 act as channels for adverse social and economic outcomes in adulthood. It confirms that inattention is among the most important early childhood behaviors associated with lower earnings in adulthood, after accounting for other factors.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 76%
“…Also, due to the difficulties in assessing mental distress related to family financial issues, we could not fully examine how the family process changed. Behavior problems at school was related to academic achievements [64], future earnings [65] and adult health [66], and self-rated health was shown to predict future health [67], mortality [68] and quality of life [67]. Child overweight is one of the serious global problems.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%