guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …

stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …

Improving education outcomes by disseminating information to parents and thereby encouraging them to become more … alternative approaches to disseminating information about a school grants program in Indonesia on parents' knowledge about the … stakeholders or sending targeted text messages to parents did increase knowledge and participation. Facilitated meetings mostly …

centers and complemented these efforts with a group-based parenting support program. Children in the integrated intervention …-emotional development than children in centers receiving teacher training alone at the 18-month follow-up. However, the study finds no …

especially true for families with children. Microsimulations of the introduction of the Family 500 program in 2016 show the …

-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two quot … age of children and duration of exposure to the program. There has been a significant improvement in the cognitive, social …

could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical … framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the link between school fees and the decision of migrant parents to bring … their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public …

reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight … children undernourished in each region, more than between regions. The results also show that the locations with larger … challenges depend on the chosen undernutrition statistic, as the share, number, and concentration of undernourished children …

disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other … that more than 9,600 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola Virus Disease. The absolute numbers of orphans created …