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Annette Lareau

Annette Lareau is Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life.

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The Importance of Social Institutions The costs of poverty for young children are high, and James Heckman does well to point this out. All the evidence suggests that the first few years...
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