only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …

where we can follow children over time, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter school. Our results …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …