in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in … difference of 8 to 10 percentage points -- for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …

Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in … whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acci?n, a conditional cash … average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school …

preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison …

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

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 …

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

The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the … impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health, self-esteem, and aid dependency …. Results indicate high levels of usage and approval of the shoes by children in the treatment group, and time diaries show …

. 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 …

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 …