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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