Income-related gaps in school readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom

Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-207

  Waldfogel, Jane ^a,b   Washbrook, Elizabeth ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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