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Family violence is a critical development challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), carrying high health … targeted caregivers of children aged 6 to 15 in vulnerable communities in the country. Treated caregivers were visited by a … their children for misbehaving. The effect is greater for caregivers with higher pre-intervention levels of coercive …
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mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings … differ from the results of in-person interventions, they align with theories that link economic deprivation and family …
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the names of the parents. We track the response rate from schools, the time to reply and the quality of the reply. We find …
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for themselves and the children. The main implementation challenges reported were staff workload and managing groups. The … (through groups in clinics or home visits) into health services has the potential to reach a large number of children with …
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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 …
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impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both … app to send messages to parents of preschool children. The intervention had no average treatment effect on attendance, but …-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in …
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regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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. 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 …
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's abilities, and a parachute effect, associated with family labour market connections. …
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