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    The long-term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low-income parents

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    2011
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    Huston, Aletha C.
    Gupta, Anjali E.
    Walker, Jessica Thornton
    Dowsett, Chantelle J.
    Epps, Sylvia R.
    Imes, Amy E.
    McLoyd, Vonnie C.
    Publisher
    Wiley
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    Article
    Article Version
    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    Abstract
    New Hope, an employment-based poverty-reduction intervention for adults evaluated in a random-assignment experimental design, had positive impacts on children’s achievement and social behavior two and five years after random assignment. The question addressed in this paper was the following: Did the positive effects of New Hope on younger children diminish or even reverse when children reached the challenges of adolescence (eight years after random assignment)? Small positive impacts on school progress, school motivation, positive social behavior, child well-being, and parent control endured, but impacts on school achievement and problem behavior were no longer evident. The most likely reasons for lasting impacts were that New Hope families were slightly less likely to be poor, and children had spent more time in center-based child care and structured activities. New Hope represents a model policy that could produce modest improvements in the lives of low-income adults and children.
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    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Huston, A. C., Gupta, A. E., Walker, J. T., Dowsett, C. J., Epps, S. R., Imes, A. E. and McLoyd, V. C. (2011), The long-term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low-income parents. J. Pol. Anal. Manage., 30: 729–754. doi:10.1002/pam.20613, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1002/pam.20613. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24514
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.20613
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    Huston, A. C., Gupta, A. E., Walker, J. T., Dowsett, C. J., Epps, S. R., Imes, A. E. and McLoyd, V. C. (2011), The long-term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low-income parents. J. Pol. Anal. Manage., 30: 729–754. doi:10.1002/pam.20613

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