83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. It finds important differences … countries where panel data to follow children over time exists, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

catered to children from different wealth backgrounds than those that remained open. These results point to actionable lessons …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

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 … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …

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 …