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SynthesisDevelopmental science2018

A meta-analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and executive function performance among children.

Gwendolyn M Lawson, Cayce J Hook, Martha J Farah

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Synthesis in Developmental science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 197 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

197 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Children's Cognition-Differences in Degree or Kind?Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026
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  6. The Measurement of Acculturation in Neuropsychological Evaluations of Hispanic/Latino Individuals across the Lifespan: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2023
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  9. Neural correlates of socioeconomic status in early childhood: a systematic review of the literature.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2021
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  17. Impact of an Individualized Cognitive Training Intervention in Preschoolers from Poor Homes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gwendolyn M LawsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Cayce J HookDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, USA.
Martha J FarahDepartment of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

SES, Childhood Experience, and The Neural Bases of LearningR01HD055689 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FARAH, MARTHA J · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD055689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) has recently attracted attention within psychology, following reports of substantial SES disparities in children's EF. Adding to the importance of this relationship, EF has been proposed as a mediator of socioeconomic disparities in lifelong achievement and health. However, evidence about the relationship between childhood SES and EF is mixed, and there has been no systematic attempt to evaluate this relationship across studies. This meta-analysis systematically reviewed the literature for studies in which samples of children varying in SES were evaluated on EF, including studies with and without primary hypotheses about SES. The analysis included 8760 children between the ages of 2 and 18 gathered from 25 independent samples. Analyses showed a small but statistically significant correlation between SES and EF across all studies (r

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Social ClassAchievementAdolescentAttentionChildChild DevelopmentChild, PreschoolExecutive FunctionFemaleHumansMale

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PMID28557154
PMCPMC5821589

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