programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed costs, even accounting for the … disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit disadvantaged children …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an … Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children …. Further, previous research has shown differential parental response by socioeconomic status to children's birth weight … earlier, more exogenous predictor of parental investments: offspring genotype. Specifically, we analyze (1) whether children …

, including on learning activities. In contrast, the second intervention led to significant improvements in children’s cognitive …

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many …

is not present for very young children. We next examine differences in specific parental teaching activities such as …