The Development of Inequalities in Child Educational Achievement: A Six Country Study project

The Development of Inequalities in Child Educational Achievement: A Six Country Study (DICE) is an Open Research Area (ORA)-funded project which aims to advance our understanding of disparities in child development by parental socioeconomic status. It leverages rich cohort and administrative data from six countries - France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States – embedding them in a harmonized framework. The project moves beyond cross-sectional and single country snapshots by studying the question of how inequalities develop over time (ages 3 to 16), what factors may influence inequalities and how national context may strengthen or buffer these processes. Child development is conceptualised broadly, to include cognitive, social/emotional and health outcomes, recognizing the interplay of multiple spheres of development in childhood.

We gratefully acknowledge our funders:

• Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR);
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG);
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC);
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS);
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO - Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek).

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