I don't think there's a simple answer to that. There are a mind-boggling number of factors at play and no major study, to my knowledge, has isolated poverty's c

I don't think there's a simple answer to that. There are a mind-boggling number of factors at play and no major study, to my knowledge, has isolated poverty's covariants in a way that would let us say which specific factors outside of poverty itself are the primary drivers of poor outcomes among the impoverished.