The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

This article compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for
disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard …

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at
age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation …

We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in
extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained …

Social gaps in children's educational achievement emerge early in life and remain stable
over schooling. Does social origin constantly shape achievement or is social inequality in …

This paper measures impacts of removing children from families investigated for abuse or
neglect. We use removal tendencies of child protection investigators as an instrument. We …

We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of a national parenting
program in Chile. The program is low cost: it lasts only 6–8 weeks, and it is administered to …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-
emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive …

Growth is forecasted to slow down for the Middle East and North Africa region. The war in
Ukraine in 2022 exacerbated inflationary pressures as the world recovered from the COVID …

OBJECTIVES Given the lasting positive effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting in the
United States on disadvantaged mothers and children at school age, we analyzed the follow …