Mediating pathways in the socio-economic gradient of child development

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 483-491

  Rubio Codina, Marta ^a,b   Attanasio, Orazio ^a,c   Grantham McGregor, Sally ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

early childhood development; home environment; parental education; Socio economic gap

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MOTHER; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84994082436     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025415626515     Document Type: Article

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