direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … 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 nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …

light on the underlying mechanisms, we also examine children's time use and interpersonal relationships. We find evidence of … compensatory investment in cognitive skills by younger children, however, they are also more likely to have poor …

Reading skills are crucial for academic success and long-term educational attainment. However, children from …-book readers, which provided free access to a large digital library of age-appropriate books, directly to the children's homes. Our … results show that the intervention led to increased reading engagement among the children, which in turn improved their …