Do early life cognitive ability and self-regulation skills explain socio-economic inequalities in academic achievement? An effect decomposition analysis in UK and Australian cohorts
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Socio-economic inequalities; Early childhood; Early intervention; Academic achievement; UK millennium cohort study; Longitudinal Study of Australian Children; Avon longitudinal study of parents and their children;All these keywords.
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