Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Orazio Attanasio; Helen Baker-Henningham; Raquel Bernal; Costas Meghir; Diana Pineda; Marta Rubio-Codina

doi:10.1093/jeea/jvac005

Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Orazio Attanasio
, Helen Baker-Henningham
, Raquel Bernal
, Costas Meghir
, Diana Pineda
, Marta Rubio-Codina

School of Psychology & Sport Science

Institute of Fiscal Studies
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota
Yale University
Fundacion Exito, Medellin
Inter-American Development Bank

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Early childhood development is becoming the focus of policy worldwide. However, the evidence on the effectiveness of scalable models is scant, particularly when it comes to infants in developing countries. In this paper, we describe and evaluate with a cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial an intervention designed to improve the quality of child stimulation within the context of an existing parenting program in Colombia, known as FAMI. The intervention improved children's development by 0.16 of a standard deviation (SD) and children's nutritional status, as reflected in a reduction of 5.8 percentage points of children whose height-for-age is below -1 SD. [Abstract copyright: © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association.]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1395-1432
Number of pages	38
Journal	Journal of the European Economic Association
Volume	20
Issue number	4
Early online date	28 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac005
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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early childhood development
parenting
early stimulation
program scale-up

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