According to the World Health Organization, even a low level of lead exposure "affects children's brain development resulting in a reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment".
Reduced educational attainment and transfers alter financial behavior; saving; and, ultimately, adults' wealth.
This diminishment of resources reduces educational attainment, inter vivos transfers, and inheritance.
Brito et al. [23] study the effects of the lack of birth certificates on educational attainment and conclude that birth under-registration reduces educational attainment.
The children of young mothers showed reduced educational attainment, were rated by multiple informants as having more emotional and behavioural problems, were at increased risk of maltreatment or harm, and showed higher rates of illnesses, accidents, and injuries.Young mothers today face difficulties known to have long-lasting effects for women and their children.
And discrimination and other factors that reduce educational attainment by blacks and Hispanics also speed those households' slide down the economic pole.
If you turn the 1 in 4 Americans into real numbers, approximately 57 million American adults live with mental illness while 26 million live with an addiction-related problem at a cost of $200 billion a year nationally when you factor in the impact on the family, unemployment, medical care, incarceration, reduced educational attainment and even homelessness.
We hypothesized that maternally-reported behaviour suggestive of poor visual perceptual abilities would be associated with difficulties in learning and result in reduced educational attainment.
Early onset of CFS materially reduced educational attainment and this in turn produced a secondary, indirect effect on earnings and on employment.
Even so, a possible reverse causality has been shown for depression and/or related symptoms with reduced educational attainment [ 48] and reduced work productivity [ 49], which may consequently have negative effects on income and economic conditions.
