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childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop … time, using several surveys conducted between 2003 and 2012. Large disparities exist in children's chances of healthy early …
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million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child …' behavior in Kenya. For households with children aged three to seven, they model household demand for mothers' participation in …' wages affect older children's school enrollment, but these factors affect boys' and girls' schooling differently. An …
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rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …
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be particularly harmful for children during their critical growth periods and have impacts on early childhood development … sample of around 7,500 children ages 3-5 years. Early childhood development is measured in four skills domains: literacy …, there is a clear dose-response relationship, where those children with exposure to higher concentrations of arsenic have …
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Scaling up early childhood development services has the potential to increase children's cognitive and socio …
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centers and complemented these efforts with a group-based parenting support program. Children in the integrated intervention …-emotional development than children in centers receiving teacher training alone at the 18-month follow-up. However, the study finds no …
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Participatory community development programs are designed to match government investments with local needs. In Morocco, where issues of inequality and poverty are high on the national agenda, a community development program, the National Initiative for Human Development, targeted high-poverty...
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This paper assesses whether the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had an impact on early … collected in 2009 and 2010 on approximately 3,000 four-year-old children residing in 310 villages located in nine districts … gaps between richer and poorer children living in project villages with those of richer and poorer children living in non …
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This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own and interactively are...
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neighborhoods, on children's nutrition in other households, after controlling for those households' education, and income. They find … direct link between the caregivers' education, and their children's health status. Education transmits information about …Both public, and private resources contribute to children's nutritional status. And investments by one household may …
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