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Hackman, Daniel A.; Gallop, Robert; Evans, Gary W.; Farah, Martha J. – Developmental Science, 2015
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts executive function (EF), but fundamental aspects of this relation remain unknown: the developmental course of the SES disparity, its continued sensitivity to SES changes during that course, and the features of childhood experience responsible for the SES-EF relation. Regarding course, early disparities…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function, Young Children, Child Development
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Crook, Stephen R.; Evans, Gary W. – Child Development, 2014
The pervasive income-achievement gap has been attributed in part to deficiencies in executive functioning (EF). The development of EF is related to children's planning ability, an aspect of development that has received little attention. Longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study of early child…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Income, Executive Function, Children
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Evans, Gary W.; Fuller-Rowell, Thomas E. – Developmental Science, 2013
Prior research shows that childhood poverty as well as chronic stress can damage children's executive functioning (EF) capacities, including working memory. However, it is also clear that not all children suffer the same degree of adverse consequences from risk exposure. We show that chronic stress early in life (ages 9-13) links childhood…
Descriptors: Poverty, Stress Variables, Children, Child Development