In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), while neonatal mortality has fallen, the number
of children under five with developmental disability remains unchanged. The first thousand …

Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health,
philanthropy, and more, chapters and commentaries shine light on how to effectively use …

The Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development urges stakeholders to
implement strategies that help children worldwide achieve their developmental potential …

There is increasing global commitment to establish early childhood interventions that
promote the development of the millions of disadvantaged children in low-and middle …

Introduction Early childhood development can be described by an underlying latent
construct. Global comparisons of children's development are hindered by the lack of a …

This chapter describes three efforts to implement and evaluate variants of the same home
visiting intervention, aimed at improving parent–child interactions and child development, in …

Developmental screening instruments were designed as diagnostic tools, but there is
growing interest in understanding whether select tools can also be used systematically in …

Most empirical work in economics has considered only a narrow set of measures as
meaningful and useful to characterize individual behavior, a restriction justified by the …

Population-level monitoring of early childhood development (ECD) can inform research and
guide national policy. One approach to population-level monitoring is through the design of …

Introduction The 'Developmental Origins of Health and Disease'hypothesis suggests that a
healthy trajectory of growth and development in pregnancy and early childhood is necessary …