Economic gradients in early child neurodevelopment: a multi-country study.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the importance of household wealth for child neurodevelopment very early in life including during infancy. Previous studies have focused on specific developmental domains instead of more holistic multi-domain measures of neurodevelopment and on economic effects for the "average" child instead of evaluating the heterogeneity in economic gradients by different levels of developmental ability. Furthermore, not much is known about whether economic gradients in early child neurodevelopment are country-specific or generalizable between populations. We evaluate wealth gradients in child neurodevelopment, an important predictor of future health and human capital, between ages 3 and 24 months in four South American countries. We also assess the heterogeneity in these gradients

SUBMITTER: Wehby GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3654665 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature