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The impact of child work on cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - 2020

We study the impact of child work on cognitive development in four Low- and Middle-Income Countries. We advance the literature by using cognitive test scores collected regardless of school attendance. We also address a key gap in the literature by controlling for children’s complete time...

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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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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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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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Does access to better water and sanitation infrastructure improve child outcomes? : evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 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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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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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale

López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016

This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child care centers in Ecuador. We first assess the...

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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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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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