Improving access and quality in early childhood development programs : experimental evidence from the Gambia
Moussa P. Blimpo, Pedro Carneiro, Pamela Jervis, Todd Pugatch
This paper studies two experiments of early childhood development programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages that had no pre-existing structured ECD services. In the second experiment, a randomly assigned subset of existing ECD centers received intensive provider training. We find no evidence that either intervention improved average levels of child development. Exploratory analysis suggests that, in fact, the first experiment, which increased access to relatively low quality ECD services, led to declines in child development among children from less disadvantaged households. Evidence supports that these households may have been steered away from better quality early childhood settings in their homes.
Year of publication: |
February 2019
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Authors: | Blimpo, Moussa P. ; Carneiro, Pedro ; Jervis, Pamela ; Pugatch, Todd |
Publisher: |
Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics |
Subject: | early childhood development | cognitive stimulation | teacher training | The Gambia | randomized control trials | Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool | Frühkindliche Bildung | Early childhood education | Kinderbetreuung | Child care | Dienstleistungsqualität | Service quality | Kognition | Cognition | Feldforschung | Field research | Gambia |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 59 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 12163 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/196661 [Handle] |
Classification: | i25 ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; O22 - Project Analysis |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980386