Home improvements: Within-family associations between income and the quality of children's home environments

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 427-444

  Dearing, Eric ^a   Taylor, Beck A ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Home environment; Income; Infancy; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548562409     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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