This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …

children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

that an RCT evaluation of a short-run small-scale early childhood program in the model predicts effects on children …

. 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 …

benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the financial incentives, by up to 21,000 EUR, for highly educated and …