, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …

creation of a preprimary parenting program for the South Sudanese context, to enhance school readiness of children between the … be useful to increase the engagement of parents in preprimary skill development in South Sudan. Bearing in mind the …) use of local resources, (iii) creation of contextually relevant curriculum, (iv) supporting parents who do not know how to …

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 …

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

Planning Board, Plan, Save the Children, and World Vision. The report notes the commonalities in current program structures and … content for particularly vulnerable families, such as those with children with disabilities or dealing with chronic illness …

Kiribati is among the first few countries in the world to have undertaken a national census of children's early health … and development. This report presents data collected for 7,194 children aged 3 to 5 years across 21 of the country …'s islands. Data were collected on children's health and development, their learning environments at home, and their early …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …

children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood …

-reported parenting practices. However, it did not translate into improvements in children's cognitive development. When local opinion … leaders were randomly exposed to the same text message intervention, parental investments declined and children's outcomes … deteriorated. Since interactions between parents and leaders about child development also decreased, the negative effects may have …