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The ecology of developmental processes.

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The article was published on 1998-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3272 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecology (disciplines) & Functional ecology.

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School Readiness and Later Achievement

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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The Bioecological Model of Human Development

TL;DR: This chapter presents the ecological model of human development that has been introduced in a prior edition of this Handbook, and defines the defining properties of the model, which involves four principal components, and the dynamic, interactive relationships among them.
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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reviewed the literature on socioeconomic status and academic achievement in journal articles published between 1990 and 2000 and showed a medium to strong SES-achievement relation.
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The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech

TL;DR: The hypothesis was tested that children whose families differ in socioeconomic status (SES) differ in their rates of productive vocabulary development because they have different language-learning experiences and properties of maternal speech that differed as a function of SES fully accounted for this difference.

Environment of childhood poverty

Gary W. Evans
TL;DR: The accumulation of multiple environmental risks rather than singular risk exposure may be an especially pathogenic aspect of childhood poverty.