The following Departmental seminar will take place on
Wednesday 30th June, 2pm, at Seminar Room B,
UCL Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH
All welcome.
Inequality in the early years in Australia, Canada, UK, and US
Professor Jane Waldfogel,
Professor Of Social Work and Public Affairs
Columbia University, New York
Abstract
The focus of this paper is on the emergence of inequality during the
early years. We offer a comparative analysis of children who, at the age
of about five years, are just at the onset of formal schooling. We study
a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn— focusing in
particular on vocabulary development, externalizing behavior, and birth
weight—using cohort data from countries: Australia, Canada, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. Our analysis describes the extent to
which inequalities in outcomes emerge by the age of five according to
parental education and income, paying particular attention to charting
the gaps that emerge at both the top and the bottom of the education and
income hierarchy.
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Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology & Biostatistics
UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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