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Language Environment and Maternal Expectations: An Evaluation of the LENA Start Program / Flavio Cunha, Marsha Gerdes, Qinyou Hu, Snejana Nihtianova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cunha, Flavio.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30837.
- NBER working paper series no. w30837
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports the results of an experimental evaluation of the LENA Start Program, a group- and center-based parenting program that teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective feedback to improve the early language environment. The intervention changes parental beliefs and impacts the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2023.
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