Childhood circumstances and young adulthood outcomes: The role of mothers' financial problems
利用英国纵向数据，研究发现母亲在儿童早期经历的严重财务问题与青少年认知及非认知能力较差相关，其影响通常大于收入本身，且部分通过母亲心理健康传导。
We here consider the cognitive and noncognitive consequences on young adults of growing up with a mother who reported experiencing major financial problems. We use UK data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children to show that early childhood financial problems are associated with worse adolescent cognitive and noncognitive outcomes, controlling for both income and a set of standard variables, and in value-added models controlling for children's earlier age-5 outcomes. The estimated effect of financial problems is almost always larger in size than that of income. Around one-quarter to one-half of the effect of financial problems on the noncognitive outcomes seems to transit through mother's mental health.