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Socio-economic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
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This paper documents differences in cognitive development – as measured by a receptive vocabulary test – between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing, pattern, and persistence of these differences is provided. The non-parametric analysis suggests that differences found at the age of ...
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- Published
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- Reviewed (other)
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Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Department for International Development
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Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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- Publisher:
- Young Lives Publisher's website
- Series:
- Young Lives working paper
- Paper number:
- 127
- ISBN:
- 9781909403413
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- English
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- ora:9099
- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-15
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- 2014
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