Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor: Long Term Outcomes

Serie

• NBER Working Papers

Resumen

• Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is well established, research on longer-term effectiveness is scarce, particularly in LDCs. We present results of a randomized scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0.005), receptive language (0.26 SD p=0.03) and expressive language (0.21 SD p=0.03). After 4.5 years, when the children were on average 7.5 years old, IQ was no longer affected, but impacts persisted relative to the control group in numeracy (0.330 SD, p=0.007) and literacy (0.272 SD, p=0.064) driven by the most disadvantaged.

autores

• Andrew, Alison
• Attanasio, Orazio
• Augsburg, Britta
• Cardona-Sosa, Lina
• Day, Monimalika
• Giannola, Michele
• Grantham-McGregor, Sally
• Anzoátegui Zapata, Juan Camilo
• Meghir, Costas
• Rubio-Codina, Marta

fecha de publicación

• 2024

Área temática

• I25 - Educación y desarrollo económico
• I30 - Bienestar y pobreza: Generalidades
• I38 - Política pública; Provisión y efectos de los programas de bienestar
• J13 - Fecundidad; Planificación familiar; Atención a la infancia; Infancia; Jóvenes
• O15 - Recursos humanos; Desarrollo humano; Distribución de la renta; Migraciones

Enfoque geográfico

• Asia  Continent
• India  Country

Issue

• 32165