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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

Aran, Meltem A. - 2017

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 - 2017

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

Brinkman, Sally - 2017

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 Sharmin - 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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Promoting Early Childhood Development Through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs

Arriagada, Ana M. - 2018

This paper examines the potential for bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs focused on child stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both types of programs and the evidence to date on the...

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Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs : Experimental Evidence from the Gambia

Blimpo, Moussa P. - 2019

Early childhood experiences lay the foundation for outcomes later in life. Policy makers in developing countries face a dual challenge of promoting access to and quality of early childhood development services, but evidence on how to manage this trade-off is scarce. This paper studies two...

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

Macours, Karen - 2017

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. - 2016

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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Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia

Halim, Daniel Zefanya - 2019

At 50.9 percent, female labor force participation in Indonesia is far below the regional average of 60.8 percent. Is it being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in preschool age eligibility and access to preschool across...

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Childcare and Maternal Employment : Evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...

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