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Leon Feinstein
Researcher at Institute of Education
Publications - 86
Citations - 8823
Leon Feinstein is an academic researcher from Institute of Education. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adult education & Child development. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 86 publications receiving 8135 citations. Previous affiliations of Leon Feinstein include London School of Economics and Political Science & Centre for Economic Performance.
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School Readiness and Later Achievement
Greg J. Duncan,Chantelle J. Dowsett,Amy Claessens,Katherine Magnuson,Aletha C. Huston,Pamela Kato Klebanov,Linda S. Pagani,Leon Feinstein,Mimi Engel,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Holly R. Sexton,Kathryn Duckworth,Crista Japel +12 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills, while measures of socioemotional behaviors were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance.
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Inequality in the Early Cognitive Development of British Children in the 1970 Cohort
TL;DR: An index of development for British children in the 1970 cohort, assessed at 22 months, 42 months, 5 years and 10 years, shows the children of educated or wealthy parents who score poorly in the early tests had a tendency to catch up, whereas children of worse-off parents who scored poorly were extremely unlikely tocatch up.
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Attainment in secondary school
Leon Feinstein,James Symons +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that the most powerful parental input is parental interest in children, as assessed by teachers, and the only strongly endogenous variable is initial attainment, which is due to measurement error.
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The contribution of adult learning to health and social capital
Leon Feinstein,Cathie Hammond +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used the National Child Development Study to investigate the effects of adult learning upon 12 outcomes that act as proxies for health and social capital, and found that adult learning plays an important role in contributing to the small shifts in attitudes and behaviours that take place during mid-adulthood.
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The Importance of Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood for Adulthood Socioeconomic Status, Mental Health, and Problem Behavior
Leon Feinstein,John Bynner +1 more
TL;DR: Changes in middle childhood strongly affected adult outcomes, often outweighing the effects of cognitive development before age 5, and the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on this change was strong.