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Investing in school readiness: A comparison of different early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia

This paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early childhood education pathways

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A population health approach in education to support children's early development: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis

The results from this review indicate that it would indeed be plausible to adapt the population health approach to sites and schools

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Patterns of multiple risk exposures for low receptive vocabulary growth 4-8 years in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Our results demonstrate a range of multiple risk profiles in a population-representative sample of Australian children and highlight the mix of risk factors faced by children

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Barriers to Parent–Child Book Reading in Early Childhood

Parent–child book reading interventions alone are unlikely to meet needs of children and families for whom the absence of reading is psychosocial risk factor

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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Non Cognitive Skills in Early Primary Grades: Evidence from Rural Indonesia

This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 9 in rural Indonesia

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How well can poor child development be predicted from early life characteristics? A whole-of-population data linkage study

A targeted program would have the potential to prevent one-quarter of the cases of being vulnerable on two or more AEDC domains at age five

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International research utilizing the Early Development Instrument (EDI) as a measure of early child development: Introduction to the Special Issue

This opening paper presents the background to this Special Issue devoted to new international research using Early Development Instrument

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Exploring local government areas with significant shifts in child development between 2009 and 2012 on the Australian Early Development Census

This project analysed AEDC results across Australia, to identify communities with significant improvement (decreases in developmental vulnerability) between 2009 and 2012

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How many infants are temperamentally difficult?

In this letter, the authors respond to the commentary on Chong et al. “How many infants are temperamentally difficult?”; by correcting errors, & then...