Family's Subjective Economic Status and Children's Matrix Reasoning: Blacks' Diminished Returns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to a pattern known as Marginalization-related Diminished Returns (MDRs), historically oppressed non-Hispanic Black Americans show weaker effects of economic status on health and development, when compared to socially privileged non-Hispanic White Americans. Such MDRs are also documented for the effects of economic status on the school performance of non-Hispanic Black children. However, the existing knowledge is minimal on similar diminished returns on children's intelligence.

Aim

To compare racial and ethnic groups for the effect of subjective economic status on children's cognitive performance, we compared non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black children for the effects of subjective economic status on children's matrix reasoning.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720911 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature