Association Between Childhood Behaviors and Adult Employment Earnings in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Specifying the association between childhood behaviors and adult earnings can inform the development of screening tools and preventive interventions to enhance social integration and economic participation.

Objective

To test the association between behaviors at age 6 years and employment earnings at age 33 to 35 years.

Design, setting, and participants

This study obtained data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children, a population-based sample of boys and girls (n = 3020) born in 1980 or 1981 in Quebec, Canada, and followed up from January 1, 1985, to December 31, 2015. The data included behavioral ratings by kindergarten teachers when the children were aged 5 or 6 years and 2013 to 2015 government tax returns of those same participants a

SUBMITTER: Vergunst F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6584893 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature