surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood … activities and child outcomes is particularly strong for non-stunted children, and parental activities can only explain about 8 …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and 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 …

deteriorated. Since interactions between parents and leaders about child development also decreased, the negative effects may have …Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a … parenting practices impacts early childhood development. Households in rural Nicaragua were randomly assigned to receive …