Dearden, Lorraine; Sibieta, Luke; Sylva, Kathy - 2011 - DRAFT: please do not cite without permission
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 …