Early Childhood Residential Instability and School Readiness: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Kathleen Ziol-Guest and Claire McKenna
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Kathleen Ziol-Guest: Institute for Children and Poverty and Statistics Norway
Claire McKenna: Institute for Children and Poverty

No 1195, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: This paper assesses the consequences of residential instability during the first five years of a child?s life for a host of school readiness outcomes. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine the relationship between multiple moves and children?s cognitive and behavioral readiness at age five. We further test this relationship for differences among poor, near poor, and not poor children. We find that moving three or more times in a child?s first five years is significantly associated with increases in several measures of internalizing and externalizing behavior. These effects are strongest for children who live in poverty.

Keywords: housing instability; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; behavior problems; test scores; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 D63 I21 I30 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
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