guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …

-reported parenting practices. However, it did not translate into improvements in children's cognitive development. When local opinion … leaders were randomly exposed to the same text message intervention, parental investments declined and children's outcomes … deteriorated. Since interactions between parents and leaders about child development also decreased, the negative effects may have …

the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …

children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …' understanding and practice of classroom accommodations for children with disabilities. The paper illustrates that educators, who …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

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 …

on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …