Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

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 interven...

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Autores principales: Attanasio, Orazio, Baker-Henningham, Helen, Bernal, Raquel, Meghir, Costas, Pineda, Diana, Rubio-Codina, Marta
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9372035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35965610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac005
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author Attanasio, Orazio
Baker-Henningham, Helen
Bernal, Raquel
Meghir, Costas
Pineda, Diana
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-93720352022-08-12 Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention Attanasio, Orazio Baker-Henningham, Helen Bernal, Raquel Meghir, Costas Pineda, Diana Rubio-Codina, Marta J Eur Econ Assoc Article 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. Oxford University Press 2022-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9372035/ /pubmed/35965610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac005 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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