Encouraging parents to invest: A randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Arbeitspapier

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute a durable device for home iron fortification of meals, called the Lucky Iron Leaf, and picture books together with a training for caregivers in dialogic reading. We find no significant average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children's baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language skills by half a standard deviation one year after implementation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-992-6
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 856

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Health Behavior ; Health and Economic Development ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Thema: early childhood ; parental investment ; nutrition ; health behavior ; human capital

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ebert, Cara ; Heesemann, Esther ; Vollmer, Sebastian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.4419/86788992
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228513
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ