This paper examines the longer-term impact of a project that expanded access to playgroup services in rural Indonesia …. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … program. Novel and rich data allow the analysis of a range of health, cognitive and socio-emotional development outcomes for … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and …; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …

significant only for children living in disadvantaged households. The presence of a partner worsens the effect of maternal …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health …