Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention | Zendy

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Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Author(s) -

Orazio Attanasio,

Helen BakerHenningham,

Raquel Bernal,

Costas Meghir,

Diana Pineda,

Marta RubioCodina

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

journal of the european economic association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.792

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1542-4774

pISSN - 1542-4766

DOI - 10.1093/jeea/jvac005

Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , context (archaeology) , randomized controlled trial , child development , medicine , physical therapy , psychology , developmental psychology , nursing , geography , surgery , archaeology

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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