The Role of Planning Skills in the Income-Achievement Gap

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 405-411

  Crook, Stephen R ^a   Evans, Gary W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATHEMATICS; POVERTY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING;

EID: 84896319279     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12129     Document Type: Article

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