The socio-economic gradient in early child outcomes: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
The socio-economic gradient in early child outcomes: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
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早期儿童结局的社会经济梯度：来自千年队列研究的证据
DOI：
10.1920/wp.ifs.2011.1103
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
K. Sylva
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文献类型：
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作者：
Ifs Working Paper;L. Dearden;Luke Sibieta;K. Sylva
这篇论文表明，在3岁时，来自富裕和贫穷背景的儿童在认知和社会情感发展方面存在很大差异，并且这种差距在5岁时扩大。与富裕家庭的儿童相比，贫困家庭的儿童所面临的“幼儿保育环境”也要差得多。例如，我们确定了贫困儿童及其母亲的健康和福祉（例如出生体重，母乳喂养和母亲抑郁症）;家庭互动（例如母子亲密度）;家庭学习环境（例如定期给孩子阅读）;父母的方式和规则（例如定期的就寝时间和用餐时间）以及3岁和5岁的育儿经验。家庭学习环境的差异，特别是在3岁时，在解释为什么来自贫困家庭的儿童的认知发展水平低于来自富裕家庭的儿童方面发挥了重要作用。然而，更大比例的差距仍然无法解释，或者似乎与家庭背景的其他方面（如母亲的年龄和家庭规模）直接相关，而这些方面并没有通过幼儿保育环境来调节。在社会情感发展方面，社会经济差距的较大比例似乎与幼儿保育环境的差异有关。
This paper shows that there are large differences in cognitive and socio-emotional development between children from rich and poor backgrounds at the age of 3, and that this gap widens by the age of 5. Children from poor backgrounds also face much less advantageous "early childhood caring environments" than children from better off families. For example we identify differences in poor children's and their mothers' health and well-being (e.g. birth-weight, breast-feeding, and maternal depression); family interactions (e.g. mother child closeness); the home learning environment (e.g. reading regularly to the child); parenting styles and rules (e.g. regular bed-times and meal-times), and experiences of childcare by ages 3 and 5. Differences in the home learning environment, particularly at the age of 3 have an important role to play in explaining why children from poorer backgrounds experience lower levels of cognitive development than children from better off families. However, a much larger proportion of the gap remains unexplained, or appears directly related to other aspects of family background (such as mothers' age, and family size) that are not mediated through the early childhood caring environment. When it comes to socio-emotional development, a greater proportion of the socio-economic gap does appear to be related to differences in the early childhood caring environment.
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Duncan, GJ;Brooks-Gunn, J
通讯作者：
Brooks-Gunn, J