Research Article
Early Years Policy
Table 1
Decomposition of the income-related gaps in cognitive school readiness scores in the ECLS-B (US) cohort.
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Percentile point gap in mean scores between incomequintile and income quintile 3 attributed to domain (% of total raw gap attributed to domain) | Domain | Literacy score | Mathematics score | Language score | | | | | | |
| Parenting style |
−2.67
|
2.87
|
−2.98
|
2.96
|
−4.38
|
4.15
| | | | | | | | Home learning environment |
−2.62
|
3.05
|
−2.52
|
2.78
|
−2.24
|
3.10
| | | | | | | | Maternal health & health behaviours |
−0.65
|
0.99
|
−1.00
|
1.28
|
−0.47
|
0.52
| | | | | | | | Child health |
−0.48
|
0.48
|
−0.59
|
0.42
|
−0.53
|
0.54
| | | | | | | | Child care (excluding Head Start) |
−0.72
|
1.16
|
−0.64
|
1.44
|
−0.60
|
0.94
| | | | | | | | Ever in Head Start |
1.17
|
−0.62
|
0.85
|
−0.45
|
0.97
|
−0.51
| | | | | | | | Mother's education |
−1.85
|
4.00
|
−1.62
|
3.34
|
−0.29
|
1.41
| | | | | | | | Demographics |
−2.36
|
2.22
|
−2.47
|
2.71
|
−2.48
|
3.43
| | | | | | | | All missing dummies |
−0.07
|
−0.03
|
−0.24
|
0.01
|
−0.26
|
0.03
| | | | | | | | Residual unexplained component |
−2.45
|
8.15
|
−4.36
|
6.44
|
−3.04
|
5.45
| | | | | | | |
| Total raw gap |
−12.68
|
22.27
|
−15.56
|
20.93
|
−13.31
|
19.06
| (Sum of rows above) | | | | | | |
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N = 7950.
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