Students are presented with a debate about the links between childhood disadvantage and later-life socio-economic outcoms.

They are expected to learn about cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and the mechanisms of their transmissions. A special attention is payed to the role of parental economic resources and housing conditions as well as emotional stress and time allocation.

 

Duncan G.J., Magnuson, K. and Vortuba-Drzal, E. 2014. “Boosting Family Inciome to Promote Child Development”.  The Future of Children, 24(1):99-120.