. 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 …

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 …

Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the … Developmental Milestones Checklist for children of caregivers with the lowest level of parental investment at the baseline. Our …

-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in … schools in lower socioeconomic areas and among younger preschool children. This paper presents the results of a behavioral … impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both …

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

children ages 3 to 6. Given the context of COVID-19, the original design was adapted as a hybrid model, alternating in … positive effects on children's prosocial behavior, self-awareness, and cognitive learning. The intervention also had an impact … the children's caregivers compared with those in the control group. Treated caregivers had better stimulation practices …

percent for those exposed at school-going ages. Educational gains are much more limited for indigenous children, though grades …

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 … cultural variation across the two countries did not affect the gap. Within countries, variation in family characteristics …