Family resources and parenting quality: Links to children's cognitive development across the first 3 years

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1065-1085

  Lugo Gil, Julieta ^a,b   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 47249102063     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01176.x     Document Type: Article

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