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 … hybrid interventions (which combine in-person and remote contact) to promote play-based learning at home. This study …

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

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 …

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 …

Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that … Barbados. Using discrete choice models, we document that most parents have strong preferences for the same schools. Using a …

. 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 …This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing … that Peru stands out, not only as the country with the largest cross-section disparity between rich and poor (of around 1 …

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 …

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a … rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of … the CLASS, are associated with higher test scores. Parents recognize better teachers, but do not change their behaviors …