Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development …. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … improved the students' mathematical and ethnomathematical skills. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics, of 0 ….12-0.18 standard deviations (s.d.), is comparable to preschool programs that teach intercultural bilingual classes in low- and middle-income …

Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have … program improves overall Mathematics outcomes, and that it has stronger impact on students in the lower quintiles of the … Mathematics outcomes distribution and on students whose teachers have university degrees. The effect on the content areas where …

This paper studies whether school-based financial education has spillover effects from children to parents. Leveraging … data from a large-scale experiment with public high schools in Peru and credit bureau records on the parents of the youth … effects on parental financial behavior within disadvantaged households. Among parents from poorer households, the treatment …

impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children’s mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

of ten caregivers of children aged 2-6 years. In the impact evaluation, the primary outcome was caregivers' use of …

of school-aged children in highly violent middle-income settings. …Family violence is a critical development challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), carrying high health … programs have improved parenting practices in high-income countries. However, evidence for LMICs is sparse. This study …

. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …