Quality child care and socio-emotional risk factors: No evidence of diminishing returns for urban children

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-372

  Montes, Guillermo ^a   Hightower, A Dirk ^b   Brugger, Lauri ^b   Moustafa, Eman ^b  

^a AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Children's Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Economics; Preschool; Socio emotional risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344469112     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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