Los Angeles County Young Children&amp;rsquo;s Literacy Experiences, Emotional Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz; Pebley, Anne R.

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“…Neighborhood cohesion. Neighborhood cohesion was assessed using items adapted from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (Lara-Cinisomo & Pebley, 2003). Parental perceptions regarding neighborhood cohesion were measured during the first two waves with 10 items (e.g., "This is a close-knit neighborhood that is cohesive and unified").…”

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Early adolescent alcohol use in context: How neighborhoods, parents, and peers impact youth

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Developmental-ecological models are useful for integrating risk factors across multiple contexts and conceptualizing mediational pathways for adolescent alcohol use; yet, these comprehensive models are rarely tested. This study used a developmental-ecological framework to investigate the influence of neighborhood, family, and peer contexts on alcohol use in early adolescence (N = 387). Results from a multi-informant longitudinal cross-lagged mediation path model suggested that high levels of neighborhood disadvantage were associated with high levels of alcohol use two years later via an indirect pathway that included exposure to delinquent peers and adolescent delinquency. Results also indicated that adolescent involvement with delinquent peers and alcohol use led to decrements in parenting, rather than being consequences of poor parenting. Overall, the study supported hypothesized relationships among key microsystems thought to influence adolescent alcohol use, and thus findings underscore the utility of developmental-ecological models of alcohol use.

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“…This means that poor children who were cared for exclusively by their parents were more likely, on average, to have poorly educated mothers. Results from our earlier analyses of L.A.FANS showed that more poorly educated mothers are less likely to read to their children, to have books in the household, and to provide other important early learning experiences (Lara-Cinisomo and Pebley, 2003).…”

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“…Children who live in poverty and whose parents are poorly educated are particularly vulnerable to behavior problems and delayed development of basic skills (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan, 1997;Bradley and Corwyn, 2002). Part of the reason may be the quality of the home environment: In an earlier report on Los Angeles County, we showed that poor maternal education and living in poor neighborhoods made it less likely that children were read to or visited the library regularly (Lara-Cinisomo and Pebley, 2003).…”

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Patterns of Child Care Use for Preschoolers in Los Angeles County

Chyu¹,

Pebley²,

Lara-Cinisomo³

2005

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Proposition 10 added a 50-cent tax to cigarettes and other tobacco products. The revenue generated from this tax was earmarked for programs that promote early childhood development for children from birth to age 5. Twenty percent of the tax dollars were allocated to the California state Proposition 10 Commission. The remaining 80 percent is distributed to individual county Proposition 10 Commissions based on the proportion of children born in each county. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors established the Los Angeles County Children and Families First-Proposition 10 Commission (now known as First 5 LA) in December 1998. The Commission's goal is to use the funds generated by the implementation of Proposition 10 to invest in the health and development of young children in Los Angeles County. For more information on First 5 LA, go to www.first5.org. The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit, independent, objective, and nonpartisan research institution, which helps to improve public policy through research and analysis. Additional information on RAND and RAND research can be found at www.rand.org. The First 5 LA-RAND Research Partnership was established to analyze the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) data and disseminate research findings related to policy questions surrounding school readiness, child care choices, children's health, the contribution of neighborhood characteristics to young children's well-being, and children's health insurance coverage, access, and utilization. to facilitate access to L.A.FANS results and other data by developing and implementing a strategy for outreach to organizations, agencies, and community groups concerned with early childhood development in Los Angeles. to develop standardized measures of school readiness, child care choices, and children's health that can be used in other studies and evaluations. Under the Research Partnership, RAND Labor and Population, a unit of the RAND Corporation, and First 5 LA research staff collaborate on identifying key policy questions on which policymakers and the public need more information. Although First 5 LA also provides funding to RAND to conduct the analyses, RAND research staff carry out the analyses and are responsible for all of the findings and conclusions. Like all RAND publications, this report has been carefully reviewed for accuracy and objectivity as part of RAND's quality assurance program. 3 Contents Preface Table of Contents Figures Tables Summary CHAPTER ONE Introduction Public Policy Objective and Organization of This Report CHAPTER TWO Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) Survey Design L.A.FANS Child Care Measures CHAPTER THREE Results Regular Use of Non-Parental Care Number of Arrangements Primary Type of Child Care Used Amount of Child Care Used Per Week Cost of Child Care Child-Adult Ratios CHAPTER FOUR

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“…FANS shows that ethnicity and immigrant status are not important predictors of school readiness, once differences in socioeconomic status are taken into account. In fact, when socioeconomic status is taken into account, children whose parents were born outside the United States do better on basic skills than children with U.S.‐born parents 33 …”

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“…In fact, when socioeconomic status is taken into account, children whose parents were born outside the United States do better on basic skills than children with U.S.-born parents. 33 Glick and White find that when family characteristics are taken into account, school achievement gains of immigrant high schoolers equal or exceed those of their native peers. Family characteristics-parents' income and education, race/ethnicity, and language-had a greater impact on achievement levels and gains than the length of time a student lived in the United States.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social and Economic Aspects of Immigration

Clark

King

2008

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The absolute size of the foreign-born U.S. population is at a historical high, but neither the share of the population that is foreign born nor the share of children in immigrant families is high compared with the beginning of the 20th century. While poverty rates for immigrants and children in immigrant families are substantial, poverty is concentrated among certain groups, particularly Hispanics and blacks, non-citizens, and recent arrivals. The general economic well-being of immigrants improves with the move to the United States and as time in the United States increases. However, immigrants remain disadvantaged in terms of health insurance coverage. The economic situation of children in immigrant families has declined since the late 1960s, despite the high labor force participation of immigrant men and the lower prevalence of single-parent households among immigrant families. Still, children in immigrant families are at least as healthy as children in native families and are less likely to engage in risky behaviors. With socioeconomic factors taken into account, children in immigrant families do as well as other children in school. Analyses of the socioeconomic well-being of immigrants have been hampered by lack of information in major data sets about legal status and about the visa status of legally present immigrants, as well as by limited availability of longitudinal data.

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Los Angeles County Young Children’s Literacy Experiences, Emotional Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Early adolescent alcohol use in context: How neighborhoods, parents, and peers impact youth

Early adolescent alcohol use in context: How neighborhoods, parents, and peers impact youth

Patterns of Child Care Use for Preschoolers in Los Angeles County

Social and Economic Aspects of Immigration

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