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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 …
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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 …
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impacts on memory, linguistic-abstraction, attention, learning, and physical ability. The neurotoxic effects of arsenic could … 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 …
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stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …
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childhood development services, led to declines in child development among children from less disadvantaged households. The …. Comparisons of observationally similar children across experiments reveal that existing early childhood development centers …
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childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop … time, using several surveys conducted between 2003 and 2012. Large disparities exist in children's chances of healthy early …
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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 … young children at developmentally appropriate ages can optimize public investments in early childhood education. The paper …
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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 … young children at developmentally appropriate ages can optimize public investments in early childhood education. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125181
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 … young children at developmentally appropriate ages can optimize public investments in early childhood education. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125198
Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in pre-primary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high- and middle-income nations. This study estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural communities in Guatemala, where the number of...
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