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 …

-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 …