This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …

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 …

Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene … presence of household communication assets to explore potential effects on children?s socio-emotional scores. In the presence … of contamination biases, the study exploited the longitudinal sample of children in the surveys to reduce time …