Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica / Paul Gertler
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2013Beschreibung: Online-Ressource (63 p)Andere physische Formen: Gertler, Paul: Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6529Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: This paper finds large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality skills. The authors re-interviewed the study participants 20 years after the intervention. Stimulation increased the average earnings of participants by 42 percent. Treatment group earnings caught up to the earnings of a matched non-stunted comparison group. These findings show that psychosocial stimulation early in childhood in disadvantaged settings can have substantial effects on labor market outcomes and reduce later life inequalityPPN: PPN: 83497908XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLDieser Titel hat keine Exemplare
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