Children from low-income backgrounds are less likely to have economically successful role models and mentors in their own families and neighborhoods, and are more likely to spend time with media. In this article, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine review the theoretical and empirical evidence on how these external forces can influence children's…

The experiment reported here tested impacts of New Hope, an employment-based poverty intervention for adults on developmental patterns of children's participation in structured out-of-school activities, using a cross-sequential design spanning ages 6 through 19. New Hope increased participation in activities (lessons, sports, religious, clubs,…

Summarizes the debate on a 1969 article arguing that California's public higher education system redistributed income from lower to upper income classes. Reanalyzes the author's study of New York's state university system, concentrating on the 35-59 age cohort, to show that lower income groups received net subsidies. (RW)