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Does biomass fuel use for cooking affect early childhood development? A case study of Kiribati
Awan, Ashar; Rahut, Dil B. - 2023
Kiribati in the Pacific islands. These findings have important policy implications for promoting ECD in the Pacific region …, particularly for Kiribati, where the use of biomass for cooking is prevalent. The study recommends scaling up the use of clean … cooking fuels to improve the health and well-being of young children in the region. …
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Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health : eperimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
LaFave, Daniel; Beyene, Abebe Damte; Bluffstone, … - 2019
in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059039
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The Effect of World Fuel Price Fluctuations on Biomass Fuel Use and Child Respiratory Health : Evidence from Guatemala
Venkataramani, Atheendar; Fried, Brian J. - 2012
Objectives – We examined the effect of world oil price fluctuations on household fuel use and child respiratory health in Guatemala. Methods – We regressed measures of household fuel use and child respiratory health on the average world oil price and a rich set of covariates. We leveraged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205995
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Early childhood development as economic development : considerations for state-level policy innovation and experimentation
Jenkins, Jade Marcus - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 28 (2014) 2, pp. 147-165
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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood
Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021
child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …
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The effect of rainfall shocks on early childhood development in Uganda
Moorthy, Akshay - In: Economics letters 200 (2021), pp. 1-4
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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood
Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021
child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794274
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On the effectiveness of child care centers in promoting child development in Ecuador
Rosero, José - 2012
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Trade-offs between different early childhood interventions : evidence from Ecuador
Rosero, José; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
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Experimental evidence from an integrated early childhood parenting program in Sierra Leone
Chandra, Anjali; Mani, Subha; Dolphin, Heather; Dyson, … - 2021
We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
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