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Joseph R. Coffey

Postdoctoral researcher, CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure

Joseph R. Coffey received his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University. His research examines the interplay between children’s learning environments and their later language outcomes across cultural settings. He has worked with non-profit research organizations, including the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Innovations for Poverty Action, to develop methods of measuring children’s early cognitive development in Ghana. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Joseph R. Coffey and Sho Tsuji / 26 September 2024

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