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 …

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. …

sample of children 0-59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from …

(coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …. Children and Indigenous people are underrepresented, relative to their poverty rate, in the rosters of beneficiaries. Brazil …, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay consistently earn the highest scores across the assessment …