Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries.

Autor/inn/en	Schady, Norbert Rüdiger; Behrman, Jere R.; Araujo, María Caridad; Azuero, Rodrigo; Bernal, Raquel; u.a.
Titel	Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries.
Quelle	Washington, DC: World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty and Inequality Team (2014), 24 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Policy research working paper. 6779
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.1596/1813-9450-6779
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Sozialer Status; Arbeitspapier; Verfahren; Lateinamerika
Abstract	Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries. To help with comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. It finds important differences in development in early childhood across countries, and steep socioeconomic gradients within every country. For the three countries where panel data to follow children over time exists, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter school. These results are robust to different ways of defining socioeconomic status, to different ways of standardizing outcomes, and to selective non-response on the measure of cognitive development.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2014/3