Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development, and Children's Achievement

Dorothea Blomeyer, Katja Coneus, Manfred Laucht and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, vol. 7, issue 2-3, 638-648

Abstract: This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor, and noncognitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions, and home resources for children's achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological cohort study, which follows the long-term outcome of early risk factors. Results indicate that differences in abilities increase during childhood, although there is a remarkable stability in the distribution of the economic and socio-emotional home resources during childhood. Initial risk conditions trigger a cumulative effect. Cognitive, motor, and noncognitive abilities acquired during preschool age contribute to the prediction of children's achievement at school age. (JEL: D87, I12, I21, J13) (c) 2009 by the European Economic Association.

JEL-codes: D87 I12 I21 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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