Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

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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.]

Keywords

  • early childhood development, parenting, early stimulation, program scale-up
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1395-1432
Number of pages38
JournalJournal of the European Economic Association
Volume20
Issue number4
Early online date28 Jan 2022
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Publication statusPublished - Aug 2022

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