stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …This paper examines the potential for bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs focused on child … program has improved some parental practices and child development outcomes, with results in cognition and language. However …

health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and …

across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged … rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the …

There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in … development (ECD) outcomes are important markers of the welfare of children. In addition, the deleterious effects of poor outcomes … childhood and measures of household socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting practices, as well as on the impact of …

be particularly harmful for children during their critical growth periods and have impacts on early childhood development … sample of around 7,500 children ages 3-5 years. Early childhood development is measured in four skills domains: literacy …, there is a clear dose-response relationship, where those children with exposure to higher concentrations of arsenic have …

seen as principal contributors to child human capital. First, household expenditure behavior under a CCT program is …

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …

widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and most parts of South Asia, is linked to child cognitive ability and … on child outcomes, prior work likely underestimates the negative impacts of consanguinity on child outcomes. This paper … finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …

Longitudinal patterns of child development and socioeconomic status are described for a cohort of children in … lagged outcomes, maternal endowments, measures of child health, and home stimulation. Wealth gradients are significant at …