Child Development and Educational Inequalities

Parental social class and migration background are strong predictors of child development in pre-primary and primary education with important cumulative effects on later educational attainment and the related social inequalities. We invite submissions that : a) describe the empirical patterns of these early inequalities in language, cognitive, socio-behavioral, health and well-being outcomes, as well as their cross-national and time variations; b) explore the mechanisms driving these inequalities relating for instance to parenting and cultural resources, economic insecurity, family distress factors, or unequal access to childcare; c) assess the cumulative effects of these early inequalities on later inequalities in school achievement and educational trajectories; d) present policy impact evaluations assessing the efficacy of interventions and policies aimed at reducing these early inequalities.