Early childhood development

UChicago conducts cutting edge research exploring the development of cognition, action, and perception in the first few years of life through the Center for Early Childhood Research, Chapin Hall, and the Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development.

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Baby with EEG

Parents’ views on justice affect babies’ moral development

Higher air pollution in low-income areas affects early childhood development A group of cars sitting in traffic surrounded by clouds of vehicle exhaust

Higher air pollution in low-income areas affects early childhood development

If parents believe they can boost child development, they can change their kids’ outcomes Mother teaching daughter

If parents believe they can boost child development, they can change their kids’ outcomes

Preschool education can benefit generations of families Parent and child

Preschool education can benefit generations of families

The impact of economic disparities on children’s development Child studying

The impact of economic disparities on children’s development

Education, nutrition improve language skills for children in rural China Mother and child in rural China

Education, nutrition improve language skills for children in rural China

Boys and girls share similar math abilities at young ages, study finds Children with abacus

Boys and girls share similar math abilities at young ages, study finds

Texts and tablets more than double time parents spend reading to kids Digital books

Texts and tablets more than double time parents spend reading to kids

UChicago Child Development Center Stony Island / Wheeler Kearns Architects

UChicago Child Development Center Stony Island / Wheeler Kearns Architects


Investment in early childhood programs yields robust returns Teacher with preschool children

Investment in early childhood programs yields robust returns

Janellen Huttenlocher, pioneering scholar in childhood development, 1932–2016 Janellen Huttenlocher smiling and holding books

Janellen Huttenlocher, pioneering scholar in childhood development, 1932–2016