This paper experimentally evaluates a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile … eight weekly group parenting sessions, and a third group that was offered the same eight group sessions plus two sessions of … improvements in home environments and parenting behaviors of comparable magnitudes, which far outlasted the short duration of the …

Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a … promising channel to deliver parenting information at large scale. This paper tests whether sending text messages about … parenting practices impacts early childhood development. Households in rural Nicaragua were randomly assigned to receive …

protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions … parenting practices are also found. Moderate gains in children's socio-emotional development are observed, but there are no … improvements in anthropometrics or cognitive development. Cash transfers alone do not alter parenting practices or improve early …