Publication Date:
2014-05-31
Description:
A substantial literature shows that U.S. early childhood interventions have important long-term economic benefits. However, there is little evidence on this question for developing countries. We report substantial effects on the earnings of participants in a randomized intervention conducted in 1986-1987 that gave psychosocial stimulation to growth-stunted Jamaican toddlers. The intervention consisted of weekly visits from community health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers and children to interact in ways that develop cognitive and socioemotional skills. The authors reinterviewed 105 out of 129 study participants 20 years later and found that the intervention increased earnings by 25%, enough for them to catch up to the earnings of a nonstunted comparison group identified at baseline (65 out of 84 participants).〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574862/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574862/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gertler, Paul -- Heckman, James -- Pinto, Rodrigo -- Zanolini, Arianna -- Vermeersch, Christel -- Walker, Susan -- Chang, Susan M -- Grantham-McGregor, Sally -- R01 HD054702/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01HD54702/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R37 HD065072/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R37HD065072/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):998-1001. doi: 10.1126/science.1251178.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, USA. gertler@haas.berkeley.edu. ; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA. Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, London, UK. ; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. ; The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA. ; The University of The West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. ; University College London, London, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876490" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Child Development
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Child, Preschool
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Cognition
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Developing Countries/*statistics & numerical data
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Early Intervention (Education)/*statistics & numerical data
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Emotions
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Employment/*economics/trends
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Jamaica
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Male
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Mother-Child Relations/*psychology
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Parenting/psychology
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Psychology
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Salaries and Fringe Benefits/*statistics & numerical data
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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