Parental education and children's cognitive development: a prospective approach.
This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on children's cognitive development using a prospective approach. The analysis focuses on a subsample of participants and their first-born children (n = 1,042, aged...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 104; no. 4; pp. 1587 - 1607 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2026
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