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Building an Ex Ante Simulation Model for Estimating the Capacity Impact, Benefit Incidence, and Cost Effectiveness of Child Care Subsidies : An Application Using Provider-Level Data from Turkey

Aktakke, Nazli; Aran, Meltem A.; Muñoz Boudet, Ana María - 2016

and capacity are low. However, the mechanisms of subsidy delivery will affect who benefits, and the overall cost … capacity and enrollments resulting from different child care subsidy mechanisms. It uses a supply-side provider level and a … choice of the subsidy delivery model has a strong bearing on the benefit incidence and cost effectiveness of the subsidy. In …

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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2016

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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The Impact of a Community Development and Poverty Reduction Program on Early Childhood Development in Morocco

Abdelkhalek, Touhami; Bassett, Lucy; Benkassmi, Mohamed; … - 2016

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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Inequality of Opportunity in Early Childhood Development in Morocco over Time

Abdelkhalek, Touhami; Bassett, Lucy; Benkassmi, Mohamed; … - 2016

Early childhood development is a critical, but often neglected, phase of human development. Shortfalls in early childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop because of the circumstances of their birth. This paper...

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The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia : Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children

Brinkman, Sally Anne; Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; … - 2015

This paper uses three waves of longitudinal data to examine the impact of expanding access to preschool services in 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...

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Does Arsenic-Contaminated Drinking Water Limit Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh?

Haque, Sabrina S.; Joseph, George; Moqueet, Nazia - 2017

Arsenic contamination in shallow groundwater aquifers remains a major barrier to providing access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh. Chronic exposure to arsenic has been shown to cause serious health impacts, including various cancers, skin lesions, neurological damage, heart disease, and...

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Impact Evaluation of Three Types of Early Childhood Development Interventions in Cambodia

Bouguen, Adrien; Filmer, Deon; Macours, Karen - 2013

Scaling up early childhood development services has the potential to increase children's cognitive and socio-emotional development and promote school readiness in a large segment of the population. This study used a randomized controlled trial approach to evaluate three scaled-up programs...

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The Impact of Early Childhood Education on Early Achievement Gaps : Evidence from the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development Project

Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil - 2014

This paper assesses whether the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had an impact on early achievement gaps as measured by an array of child development outcomes and enrollment. The analysis is based on longitudinal data collected in 2009 and 2010 on approximately 3,000...

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Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Macours, Karen; Schady, Norbert Rüdiger; Vakis, Renos - 2012

A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...

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Giving Children a Better Start : Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Galiani, Sebastián; Manacorda, Marco - 2012

The authors study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance in the context of a rapid expansion in the supply of pre-primary...

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