Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development …. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of … hybrid interventions (which combine in-person and remote contact) to promote play-based learning at home. This study …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …

impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both … app to send messages to parents of preschool children. The intervention had no average treatment effect on attendance, but …-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … 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 nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …

Parents can play a crucial role in children's learning, particularly when children are out of school or during times of … parents and were delivered via basic mobile phones, on parenting styles and children's cognitive development. Our data come … intervention, volunteers mentored mothers and tutored children over the phone, while in the second one, participating mothers …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …

of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii …) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …