Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor: Long Term Outcomes / Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Lina Cardona-Sosa, Monimalika Day, Michele Giannola, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir, Marta Rubio-Codina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Alison.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Attanasio, Orazio.

Augsburg, Britta.

Cardona-Sosa, Lina.

Day, Monimalika.

Giannola, Michele.

Grantham-McGregor, Sally.

Jervis, Pamela.

Meghir, Costas.

Rubio-Codina, Marta.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w32165.

NBER working paper series no. w32165

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2024.

Summary:

Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is well established, research on longer-term effectiveness is scarce, particularly in LDCs. We present results of a randomized scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0.005), receptive language (0.26 SD p=0.03) and expressive language (0.21 SD p=0.03). After 4.5 years, when the children were on average 7.5 years old, IQ was no longer affected, but impacts persisted relative to the control group in numeracy (0.330 SD, p=0.007) and literacy (0.272 SD, p=0.064) driven by the most disadvantaged.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2024.