have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early … reduced health outcomes of children. The results are in line with the ones found in (Rosero and Oosterbeek, 2011) and support … the existence of a trade-off between children development and labor market participation that should be considered at the …

children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for …

-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and …, household, and child level and unobserved fixed characteristics, with differential impacts by age of children and duration of …