SEED 

Social InEquality and its Effects on child Development: A study of birth cohorts in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

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Project Details

SEED examines differences in early child development, specifically oral language skills and socio-emotional development. These manifest as social inequalities which, for many, persist through childhood and into work.

The project has two principal objectives:

  1. Identify the mechanisms through which changing social inequalities impact on children’s oral language and socio-emotional development;
  2. Identify the implications that these evolving social disparities have for patterns of performance at school age and beyond into adolescence and adulthood.
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Principal Investigators

Recent Publications

The emergence of 5-year-olds’ behavioral difficulties: Analyzing risk and protective pathways in the United Kingdom and Germany

Authors: Wei Huang, Sabine Weinert, Helen Wareham, James Law, Manja Attig, Jutta von Maurice, Hans-Günther Roßbach, |

Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers’ language and social competence

Authors: Wei Huang, Sabine Weinert, Jutta von Maurice, Manja Attig, |

The Role of Social and Emotional Adjustment in Mediating the Relationship Between Early Experiences and Different Language Outcomes

Authors: James Law, Nathalie Tamayo Martinez, Cristina McKean, Robert Rush, |

Aggressive behavior, emotional, and attention problems across childhood and academic attainment at the end of primary school

Authors: Nathalie Tamayo Martinez, Henning Tiemeier, Maartje Luijk, James Law, Jan van der Ende, Frank Verhulst, Pauline Jansen, |

Testing the association between the early parent–child relationship and teacher reported socio-emotional difficulties at 11 years: a quantile mediation analysis

Authors: Robert Rush, Elizabeth Westrupp, James Law, |

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Research Themes

Stakeholders

Academic stakeholders: National and international academics in the fields of language acquisition, developmental psychology, demography, social policy, epidemiology and education studies. International academic researchers across areas of application of social statistics using non-linear models such as quantile regression and marginal structural models, and those responsible for designing birth cohort studies.

Policy makers civil society groups: and Policy makers, charitable organisations, parliamentarians, commissioners and

Clinical stakeholders: European practitioners with clinical specialisms in disorders of child development, such as paediatricians and speech and language therapists

General public: Parents and teachers in countries covered by the analyses.