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 …

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the …

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the … scores is likely to be the most appropriate policy response to ensure that children born towards the end of the year are not …

follow two cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children … of the child's abilities. We find a statistically significant difference between children in the 90th and 10th percentile …