home visiting programmes
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Can home visits enhance the impact of cash transfers?
Adding home visits to a social safety net programme providing cash transfers and parenting information led to sustained improvements in child development, health behaviours, and education outcomes in Burkina Faso, whereas cash alone produced fewer la...
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Mismeasuring learning: Beware of psychometric test scores
High-frequency data from a large early childhood intervention in China indicates that skills develop through the emergence of qualitatively new abilities and stochastic fluctuations, rather than as higher levels of a fixed trait, challenging the prac...
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Measuring the impact of a home visiting programme on child skills
A home visiting programme substantially improves the language, cognitive, fine motor and socioemotional skills of left-behind children in rural China