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Sex-Differences in Language and Socio-emotional Skills in Early Childhood

Bando Grana, Rosangela; López-Bóo, Florencia; Li, Xia - 2016

years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental … and identity effects to explain the gap. Females had an advantage in both countries and both dimensions. Males in Chile … socio-emotional skills. The gaps in Nicaragua were not statistically different to those in Chile. Thus geographical and …

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Inequality in the early years in LAC: A comparative study of size, persistence, and policies

Attanasio, Orazio P.; López Bóo, Florencia; … - 2023

development (namely, language, cognition, and socio-emotional skills) of children 0-5 in five Latin American countries (Chile … patterns that widely differ across countries. For instance, gaps in language and cognition for Uruguay and Chile are much …

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Child care quality and child development

Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017

Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....

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Does Access to Better Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Improve Child Outcomes? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert - 2015

I review the evidence on access to water and sanitation infrastructure and child outcomes In Latin America. I show that there are large differences in access across countries and, within countries, between households living in urban and rural areas. Many papers in the public health literature...

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Improving early childhood development outcomes in times of COVID-19: Experimental evidence on parental networks and SMS messages

Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Namen, Olga; … - 2022

This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of...

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Child Care Arrangements and Labor Supply

Del Boca, Daniela - 2015

This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with...

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Delivering Parenting Interventions through Health Services in the Caribbean: Impact, Acceptability and Costs

Walker, Susan P.; Powell, Christine; Chang, Susan M.; … - 2015

Integrating early childhood interventions with health and nutrition services has been recommended, however there is limited information on interventions that are effective and feasible for delivery through health services. In this trial we developed and evaluated a parenting program that could...

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Measuring quality and characterizing Cuna Mas home visits: Validation of the HOVRS-A+2 in Peru and of a short checklist for use at-scale

Rubio-Codina, Marta; Dormal, Marta; Araujo, M. Caridad - 2018

As home visiting programs continue to expand, it is crucial to develop cost-effective methods to monitor their quality that are feasible at-scale. This paper compares two instruments widely used among home visiting services in the US to a simpler checklist in the context of Peru's Cuna Mas...

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Medición de la calidad y caracterización de las visitas domiciliarias de Cuna Más: Validación del HOVRS-A+2 en Perú y de una corta lista de verificación para su uso a escala

Rubio-Codina, Marta; Dormal, Marta; Araujo, M. Caridad - 2018

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Quality of parenting programs and child development outcomes: The case of Peru's Cuna Mas

Caridad Araujov, M.; Dormal, Marta; Rubio-Codina, Marta - 2018

This paper analyzes the association between quality of parenting programs and child development outcomes. It focuses on parenting programs delivered through home visits (i.e., home visiting programs) in which a paraprofessional works with the caregiver to improve parental practices, skills and...

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