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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786405
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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195155
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Did the nation-wide implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS result in reduced expenditures? : a reexamination of the evidence
Goel, Deepti; Meenakshi, J. V.; Souza, Zaeen de - 2022
This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342765
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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2024
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564083
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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022
Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518209
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Cash, conditions and child development: Experimental evidence from a cash transfer in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - 2018
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood 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:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141956
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La calidad de los jardines de cuidado infantil y el desarrollo infantil
Araujo, Maria Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor … in classrooms with more experienced caregivers, and classrooms with caregivers who demonstrate higher-quality … interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786406
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Cost-effective public daycare in a low-income economy benefits children and mothers
Hojman, Andrés; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
younger than four years of age in poor urban areas in Nicaragua. We explore the effects of this program on several measures of … suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141995
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Centros infantiles públicos y costo-efectivos benefician a niños y madres en un país de bajos ingresos
Hojman, Andrés; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
younger than four years of age in poor urban areas in Nicaragua. We explore the effects of this program on several measures of … suggestive evidence that quality greatly matters for the impacts at the child level, but not at the mother level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534419
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Socioeconomic gaps in child development: Evidence from a national health and nutrition survey in Bolivia
Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian; Vidal Fuertes, Cecilia - 2018
sample of children 0-59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141954