Children Achieving Potential to Escape Poverty Economist Marianne Page on Poverty
In this video, economist Marianne Page talks about how increasing
academic achievement among children in poverty can help them to
achieve their potential. Policies that can help improve
children’s test scores help to build skills that have important
impacts on the ability to escape poverty in the future.
Page is a Professor of Economics at UC Davis and Deputy Director
of the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research. She is a research
associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has
served as Principal Investigator on grants funded by the National
Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Marianne Page is a Professor of Economics and
Co-Director of the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research
at UC Davis. She has authored numerous scholarly articles
focusing on low-income families. A labor economist, she is
an expert on intergenerational mobility and equality of
opportunity in the United States. She has also published on
issues related to the U.S.
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Smaller classes help students, many argue, especially those most
“at risk.” Research shows that on average this is true. However,
when “risk” is defined beyond ethnicity or socioeconomic status,
the picture of who most benefits becomes less clear.
