A Report Card on Early Childhood Development

Samuel Berlinski and Norbert Schady
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Samuel Berlinski: University of Oxford

Chapter 2 in The Early Years, 2015, pp 25-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Child well-being is multidimensional. This chapter summarizes the evidence on the health, nutrition, cognitive, language, socioemo-tional, and motor development of young children in Latin America and the Caribbean. These measures are important in their own right, and because of their implications for long-term productivity and growth in the region. Where possible, comparisons across countries, changes over time, and differences within countries, especially by wealth or parental education—so-called socioeconomic gradients— are made to provide an added dimension to the description, and a clearer picture of the state of well-being of the region’s children.

Keywords: Infant Mortality; Early Childhood Development; Receptive Vocabulary; Socioeconomic Gradient; Peabody Picture Vocabulary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137536495_2

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