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Concurrent Validity and Feasibility of Short Tests Currently Used to Measure Early Childhood Development in Large Scale Studies: Methodology and Results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420873
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Concurrent validity and feasibility of short tests currently used to measure early childhood development in large scale studies : methodology and results
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Araujo, María Caridad; Attanasio, … - 2016
In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527322
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5 … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471856
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556666
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Estimating the production function for human capital : results from a randomized control trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499535
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The socioeconomic gradient of child development : cross-sectional evidence from children 6 - 42 months in Bogota
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 50 (2015) 2, pp. 464-483
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Estimating the production function for human capital : results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - In: The American economic review 110 (2020) 1, pp. 48-85
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From quantity to quality : delivering a home-based parenting intervention through China's family planning cadres
Sylvia, Sean; Warrinnier, Nele; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; … - 2018
A key challenge in developing countries interested in providing early childhood development programs at scale is whether these programs can be effectively delivered through existing public service infrastructures. We present the results of a randomized experiment evaluating the effects of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854164
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Estimating the production function for human capital : results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimmons, Emla; … - 2018
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the determinants of parents' material and time...
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