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school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … that Peru stands out, not only as the country with the largest cross-section disparity between rich and poor (of around 1 …
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This paper analyzes the association between quality of parenting programs and child development outcomes. It focuses on parenting programs delivered through home visits (i.e., home visiting programs) in which a paraprofessional works with the caregiver to improve parental practices, skills and...
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This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945),...
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