Volume 54 - Article 1 | Pages 1–36  

Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary

By Zsuzsanna Veroszta, Zsolt Spéder, Krisztina Kopcsó

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