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Peer reviewedPadilla, Yolanda C.; Boardman, Jason D.; Hummer, Robert A.; Espitia, Marilyn – Social Forces, 2002
Children of Mexican American women, especially immigrants, have unexpectedly good birth weights. A study of 3,710 Mexican American, Black, and White children aged 3-4, who completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, found birth weight was not a powerful predictor of child cognitive development, nor did it explain pronounced racial and…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Blacks, Child Development, Cognitive Development
