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creation of a preprimary parenting program for the South Sudanese context, to enhance school readiness of children between the … be useful to increase the engagement of parents in preprimary skill development in South Sudan. Bearing in mind the …) use of local resources, (iii) creation of contextually relevant curriculum, (iv) supporting parents who do not know how to …
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experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …
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Planning Board, Plan, Save the Children, and World Vision. The report notes the commonalities in current program structures and … content for particularly vulnerable families, such as those with children with disabilities or dealing with chronic illness …
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children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood …
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When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … social security on education investments in children. In a difference-in-differences framework, a significant increase in the …
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Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …
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finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …
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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 …
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-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 …
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This paper develops and estimates a model of child care markets that endogenizes demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry,...
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