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Author: Grannis, Kerry Searle
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1. Grannis, Kerry Searle
Sawhill, Isabel V.
Improving Children’s Life Chances: Estimates from the Social Genome Model
Report No. 48, Social Genome Project Series, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, October 2013.
Also: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/10/11-improving-childrens-life-chances-sawhill-grannis
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Keyword(s): Achievement; Children, Academic Development; Children, Well-Being; Economic Well-Being; Family Income; Gender Differences; Life Course; Mobility, Economic; Modeling, Simulation; School Entry/Readiness

There is ample evidence that children born to poorer families do not succeed at the same rate as children born to the middle class. On average, low-income children lag behind on almost every cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and health measure. These gaps start early—some of the newest research suggests that cognitive gaps are detectable in infancy—and persist throughout childhood and into adulthood. What’s more, the trend has been worsening over time: despite improvements in closing gender and race gaps over the last half century, the difference between average outcomes by socio-economic status has gotten larger in test scores, college enrollment rates, and family formation patterns.
Bibliography Citation
Grannis, Kerry Searle and Isabel V. Sawhill. "Improving Children’s Life Chances: Estimates from the Social Genome Model." Report No. 48, Social Genome Project Series, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, October 2013.
2. Sawhill, Isabel V.
Winship, Scott
Grannis, Kerry Searle
Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities
Report No. 47, Social Genome Project Series, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, September 2012.
Also: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/09/20-pathways-middle-class-sawhill-winship
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Keyword(s): Achievement; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Economic Well-Being; Family Income; Gender Differences; Life Course; Mobility, Economic; Modeling, Simulation; School Entry/Readiness

Why do some children do so much better than others? And what will it take to create more opportunity? The remainder of this paper addresses these two questions.
Bibliography Citation
Sawhill, Isabel V., Scott Winship and Kerry Searle Grannis. "Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities." Report No. 47, Social Genome Project Series, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, September 2012.