TY - JOUR T1 - Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 446 LP - 463 DO - 10.3368/jhr.50.2.446 VL - 50 IS - 2 AU - Norbert Schady AU - Jere Behrman AU - Maria Caridad Araujo AU - Rodrigo Azuero AU - Raquel Bernal AU - David Bravo AU - Florencia Lopez-Boo AU - Karen Macours AU - Daniela Marshall AU - Christina Paxson AU - Renos Vakis Y1 - 2015/03/31 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/50/2/446.abstract N2 - 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. ER -