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TY - JOUR
T1 - Inequalities in adolescent learning
T2 - Does the timing and persistence of food insecurity at home matter?
AU - Aurino, Elisabetta
AU - Fledderjohann, Jasmine
AU - Vellakkal, Sukumar
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economics of Education Review. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Economics of Education Review, 70, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.03.003
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - We investigated inequalities in learning achievements at 12 years by household food insecurity trajectories at ages 5, 8 and 12 years in a longitudinal sample of 1,911 Indian children. Estimates included extensive child and household controls and lagged cognitive scores to address unobserved individual heterogeneity in ability and early investments. Overall, household food insecurity at any age predicted lower vocabulary, reading, maths and English scores in early adolescence. Adolescents from households that transitioned from food insecurity at age 5 to food security at a later age, and adolescents from chronically food insecure households had the lowest scores across all outcomes. There was heterogeneity in the relationship between temporal occurrence of food insecurity and cognitive skills, based on developmental and curriculum-specific timing of skill formation. Results were robust to additional explanations of the “household food insecurity gap”, i.e. education and health investments, parental and children's educational aspirations, and children's psychosocial skills.
AB - We investigated inequalities in learning achievements at 12 years by household food insecurity trajectories at ages 5, 8 and 12 years in a longitudinal sample of 1,911 Indian children. Estimates included extensive child and household controls and lagged cognitive scores to address unobserved individual heterogeneity in ability and early investments. Overall, household food insecurity at any age predicted lower vocabulary, reading, maths and English scores in early adolescence. Adolescents from households that transitioned from food insecurity at age 5 to food security at a later age, and adolescents from chronically food insecure households had the lowest scores across all outcomes. There was heterogeneity in the relationship between temporal occurrence of food insecurity and cognitive skills, based on developmental and curriculum-specific timing of skill formation. Results were robust to additional explanations of the “household food insecurity gap”, i.e. education and health investments, parental and children's educational aspirations, and children's psychosocial skills.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Cognitive skills
KW - Education
KW - Education inequality
KW - Food insecurity
KW - Human capital
KW - India
KW - Learning
KW - Lifecourse
KW - Longitudinal
U2 - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.03.003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
SP - 94
EP - 108
JO - Economics of Education Review
JF - Economics of Education Review
SN - 0272-7757
ER -