Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Dupas, Pascaline; Falézan, Camille; Jayachandran, Seema; Walsh, Mark

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“…Duncan et al, 2023;Francesconi & Heckman, 2016;Kalil, 2014). Recent research underscores the effectiveness of home-visiting programs focusing on parenting and early childhood development in low-income settings globally (e.g., Araujo et al, 2021;Attanasio et al, 2022;Doyle, 2022;Dupas et al, 2023;Emmers et al, 2021;McCormick et al, 2020;Morris et al, 2017). To illustrate, a recent meta-analysis (Jeong et al, 2021) encompassing 102 randomized controlled trials of parenting interventions across 33 countries, serving families with children aged 3 or under, estimated positive impacts (lower bounds of pooled effect sizes ranging from 0.1 to 0.3) on various measures.…”

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

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Payne,

Knopf

2023

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Objective. Understanding the nature and mechanisms of early inputs’ effects on child outcomes is central to current child development research. The present study aimed to estimate the impact of a weekly home-visiting program targeting responsive and instructional skills of parents with preschool-aged children. Interactions with participation in a state preschool program were examined. Design. Leveraging a rich set of linked administrative data, a quasi-experimental method was implemented (doubly-robust, inverse probability weighting regression adjustment). For a sample of 2,000 participating children (born between 2012-2016; age 3-4 at program’s onset; 35% Black; 30% White; 32% Hispanic; 48% female), three outcomes measured at or up to kindergarten's entry were considered: cognitive skills; services uptake under IDEA plan B; and investigated reporting of child maltreatment. Results. The home-visiting parenting program generated a 0.07 SD gain on cognitive skills; increased and decreased the likelihood of uptake in services under IDEA and child maltreatment, by 2 percentage points, respectively. Impacts were robust to conditioning on preschool attendance. Null hypotheses for home-visiting and preschool interactions could not be rejected. Conclusions. Findings suggested that induced changes in parent-child interactions from participation in the home-visiting parenting program yielded skills of a different kind from those developed through participation in voluntary prekindergarten.

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

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Payne,

Knopf

2023

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

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Payne,

Knopf

2024

Early Childhood Educ J

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Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Giannola

2023

The Economic Journal

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Intra-household inequality explains 40% of child human capital variation in the developing world. I study how parents’ investment contributes to this inequality. To mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a survey experiment with parents in India that allows me to identify beliefs about the human capital production, preferences for inequality in outcomes, and the role of resources. I find that investments are driven by efficiency considerations: as parents perceive investment and ability as complements, they invest more in higher-achieving children and more so when constrained. Simulations indicate that interventions have intra-household distributional impacts through parental responses.

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Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Impacts on Child Outcomes from a Home-Visiting Parenting Program and its Interaction with Preschool

Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Human Capital: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

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