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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul - 2013
This paper finds large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395812
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul J. - 2017
This paper finds large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974167
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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
Gertler, Paul - 2021
This paper reports the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The … the poor neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-89, treatment consisted of a two-year, home … 75 percent of the original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700568
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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
Gertler, Paul J.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. We find large and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629512
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul J. - 2013
We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079255
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul; Heckman, James; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper finds large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560133
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul - 2013
We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459477
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Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Chang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up … original program. An analysis of it facilitates investigation of the skills generated by Jamaica Reach Up and Learn. We find …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435091