Social InEquality and its Effects on child Development: A study of birth cohorts in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

儿童早期发展(特别是口语技能和社会情感发展)的显著差异在义务教育开始之前就已经显现出来。这些表现为社会不平等，对许多人来说，这种不平等一直持续到童年和工作。SEED通过利用来自一系列不同国家的最佳数据，探索了这种情况发生的机制。SEED正在研究“早期生活的影响和结果”，链接到“成人早期过渡到高等教育、职业培训和经济活动”，并将纳入欧洲政策和经合组织的翻译项目。SEED有两个主要目标：1.确定改变社会不平等对儿童口头语言和社会情感发展产生影响的机制；2.确定这些不断变化的社会不平等对学龄期及青春期和成年期以后的表现模式的影响。我们利用了三个申请国(英国、荷兰和德国)具有国家代表性的队列数据。这样的泛欧洲计划以前从未尝试过，并通过互补性的合作伙伴国分析(美国、加拿大和澳大利亚)得到了扩展。由Pi James Law领导的方案团队由来自伙伴国的高级、中期和早期职业研究人员组成。它将被组织成6个工作包。该团队将每六个月举行一次会议，并将在整个项目生命周期内促进几名研究人员的交流。

Marked differences in early child development (specifically oral language skills and socio-emotional development) have opened up before compulsory schooling begins. These manifest as social inequalities which, for many, persist through childhood and into work. SEED explores the mechanisms by which this happens by drawing on the best data from a range of different countries. SEED is in 'Early Life Influences and Outcomes', linking into 'Early adult transitions into tertiary education, vocational training and economic activity', and will feed into European policy and OECD translational projects. SEED has two principal objectives: 1. To identify the mechanisms through which changing social inequalities impact on children's oral language and socio-emotional development; 2. To identify the implications that these evolving social disparities have for patterns of performance at school age and beyond into adolescence and adulthood. We utilise nationally representative cohort data in the three applicant countries (UK, Netherlands & Germany). Such a pan European programme has never been attempted before, and is extended by complementary co-operation partner country analyses (US, Canada and Australia). Led by PI James Law, the programme team is made up of senior, mid and early career researchers, from the the partner countries. It will be organised in 6 Work Packages. The team will meet at six monthly intervals, and will facilitate several researcher exchanges throughout the project lifecycle.