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

among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11 percentage points). Price and stunting effects increase in program …

. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household … is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall …

shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the … program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health …

This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate social projects from the perspective of children's opportunities on the … applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest … opportunities for children from indigenous backgrounds are substantial and are situated in crucial parts of the distribution …

health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that … actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school. This feature of the program makes it possible to … assess whether conditionality is necessary for programs to have beneficial effects on children. The authors use random …

extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. The analysis finds significant and sizable …