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Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica

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Gertler, Paul, Heckman, James, Pinto, Rodrigo, Zanolini, Arianna, Vermeersch, Christel, Walker, Susan, Chang, Susan M., Grantham-McGregor, Sally·2014·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.1251178PMC PMC4574862
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Help as hungry children helps young adults: Supporters of early childhood interventions follow the rule “better early than late,” but so far there's been limited evidence that the rule applies to disadvantaged children in developing countries. Gertler et al. looked at the earnings of young adults in Jamaica, 20 years after, as toddlers, they were given 2 years of help from community health workers. The earnings of the treatment group caught up to those of a comparison group of well-fed children, but the control group of undernourished children that did not receive the health worker visits has lagged behind. Science , this issue p. 998

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    “Studies in LMIC have shown that high-quality family experiences in toddlerhood are linked to positive cognitive outcomes in early childhood (Walker et al. 1994(Walker et al. , 2011) ) that persist into adolescence and adulthood (Gertler et al. 2014).”

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Authors
Gertler, P., Heckman, J., Pinto, R., Zanolini, A., Vermeersch, C., Walker, S., Chang, S. M., & Grantham-McGregor, S.
Affiliations
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (GB)
  • University of Chicago (US)
  • World Bank (US)
  • University of the West Indies (JM)
  • University College London, London, UK.
Corresponding author
Gertler, Paul
ORCID
Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2014-05-30
Volume
344
Issue
6187
Pages
998-1001
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.1251178
PMC
PMC4574862
OpenAlex
W1975855420
Cited by
776
References
7
Citations by year
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FWCI
315.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Impact Fund
  • World Bank Group
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R37HD065072, R01HD54702, R01HD054702)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
Keywords
early childhood intervention, labor market returns, earnings, stunting, psychosocial stimulation, parenting skills, community health workers, cognitive development, social-emotional development, long-term economic benefits, developing countries, Jamaica
MeSH terms
Child Development, Child, Preschool, Cognition, Developing Countries, Emotions, Employment, Female, Humans, Infant, Jamaica, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Psychology, Salaries and Fringe Benefits, Parenting, Early Intervention, Educational, Young Adult

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