An event presented by the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development.
Christa is an Associate Professor at the Université de Québec à Montréal.
She has helped develop instruments used in the National Longitudinal.
Study on Children and Youth and contributed to several papers based on NLSCY data.
Her interests include off -diagonal trajectories of development as well as increments in parental human capital and their impact on child development. She led a study from 2000 to 2004 examining the quality of the child care settings attended by the children participating in the Longitudinal Study of Child Development in Québec. The results of this study have generated considerable attention and are highly relevant for policy makers. She is engaged in a number of efforts to improve child care quality and professional work in the field.
