PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rubio-Codina, Marta
AU  - Attanasio, Orazio
AU  - Meghir, Costas
AU  - Varela, Natalia
AU  - Grantham-McGregor, Sally
TI  - The Socioeconomic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6–42 Months in Bogota
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.50.2.464
DP  - 2015 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 464--483
VI  - 50
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/464.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/464.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2015 Mar 31; 50
AB  - We study the socioeconomic gradient of child development on a sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6–42 months in Bogota using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development. We find an average difference of 0.53, 0.42, and 0.49 standard deviations (SD) in cognition, receptive, and expressive language respectively, between children in the top and bottom quartile of the wealth distribution. These gaps increase substantially to 0.81 SD (cognition), 0.76 SD (receptive language), and 0.68 SD (expressive language) for children aged 31–42 months. These robust findings can inform the design and targeting of interventions promoting early childhood development.