Does Schooling Buffer the Effects of Early Risk?

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 314-326

  Gorman, Kathleen S ^a   Pollitt, Ernesto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUATEMALA; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030118631     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01736.x     Document Type: Article

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