PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Schady, Norbert
AU  - Behrman, Jere
AU  - Araujo, Maria Caridad
AU  - Azuero, Rodrigo
AU  - Bernal, Raquel
AU  - Bravo, David
AU  - Lopez-Boo, Florencia
AU  - Macours, Karen
AU  - Marshall, Daniela
AU  - Paxson, Christina
AU  - Vakis, Renos
TI  - Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.50.2.446
DP  - 2015 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 446--463
VI  - 50
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/446.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/446.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2015 Mar 31; 50
AB  - This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic status in early childhood for five Latin American countries using a common measure of receptive language ability. We find important differences in development in early childhood across countries and steep socioeconomic gradients within every country. For the three countries where we can follow children over time, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter school. Our results are robust to different ways of defining socioeconomic status, to different ways of standardizing outcomes, and to selective nonresponse on our measure of cognitive development.