explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …

Objective: To estimate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive skills as measured at ages 3, 5, 7 …). Participants: Data on 11,792 (age 3) and 9117 (age 5) children in MCS and 4923 (age 7 and 11) children in NCDS. Main outcome …: The duration of breastfeeding has a small, but significant, effect on children's cognitive skills in the linear regression …

There is a well-established socioeconomic gradient in cognitive test scores for children. This gradient emerges at very … early ages and there is also some evidence that it can widen as children age. We investigate this phenomenon with two … longitudinal cohorts of Irish children who take such tests at ages ranging from 9 months to 17 years, using maternal education and …