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A new study conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health examines the impact of intensive early education programs on the health and health behaviors of low-income children. The study used data from the well-known Carolina Abededarian Project (ABC), a randomized control study that enrolled 111 infants in the 1970s and continued to follow them through age 21.
January 17, 2011
Proceedings of the National Acadmey of the Sciences of the United States of America
The need to delay gratification, control impulses, and moderate emotional expression is one of the earliest demands that societies place on their children, and success at many life tasks depends critically on children’s mastery of such self-control. This study looked at the lives of 1,000 children and examined their mastery of self-control by age 10. The authors then followed them for 30 years and traced the consequences of their childhood self-control for their health, wealth, and criminal offending.
January 1, 2011
January 1, 2011