Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

-used language training program and a rich set of conditioning variables. Taking information on mathematical skills into account … effects of participating in a language training program at the kindergarten on grammar skills range between 11% and 17% of a …

We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we …

In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before …, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development … vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …