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 …

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 …

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 …

stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …

Scaling up early childhood development services has the potential to increase children's cognitive and socio …

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 …

childhood development services, led to declines in child development among children from less disadvantaged households. The …. Comparisons of observationally similar children across experiments reveal that existing early childhood development centers …

Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households …' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks … their siblings. Negative education impacts are largest for in utero shocks, diminished for shocks before age two, and have …