Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald, CT Andersen… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Improving educational outcomes in developing countries: Lessons from rigorous impact evaluations

RJ Murnane, A Ganimian - NBER working paper, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper reviews and interprets the evidence from 223 rigorous impact evaluations of
educational initiatives conducted in 56 low-and middle-income countries. We consider for …

[图书][B] The economics of poverty: History, measurement, and policy

M Ravallion - 2015 - books.google.com
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

MC Araujo, P Carneiro, Y Cruz-Aguayo… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to
teachers within schools with a rule that is as good as random. We collected data on children …

A toolkit for measuring early childhood development in low and middle-income countries

LCH Fernald, E Prado, P Kariger, A Raikes - 2017 - repositorio.minedu.gob.pe
The Toolkit provides a practical,“how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child
development measurements for use in low-and middle-income countries. Users can follow …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale 1: Early childhood development coming of age: Science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald… - Lancet (London …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Latin America's social policy challenge: Education, social insurance, redistribution

S Levy, N Schady - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013 - aeaweb.org
Long regarded as a region beset by macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and excessive
poverty and inequality, Latin America has undergone a major transformation over the last 20 …

[图书][B] Los primeros años: el bienestar infantil y el papel de las políticas públicas

MC Araujo, M Ardanaz, E Armendáriz, JR Behrman… - 2015 - books.google.com
El bienestar infantil es importante tanto por razones éticas como económicas porque los
niños que prosperan en los primeros años tienen más probabilidad de volverse ciudadanos …

[图书][B] The early years: child well-being and the role of public policy

S Berlinski, N Schady - 2015 - library.oapen.org
Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy Page 1 THE Edited by Samuel Berlinski and
Norbert Schady DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAS Child Well-Being and the Role of …

The determinants of human capital formation during the early years of life: Theory, measurement, and policies

OP Attanasio - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, I discuss a research agenda on the study of human capital accumulation in the
early years, with a particular focus on developing countries. I discuss several …