Carneiro, P;
Blimpo, M;
Jervis, P;
Pugatch, T;
(2021)
Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia.
Economic Development and Cultural Change
10.1086/714013.
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Abstract
We evaluate two experiments of early childhood development (ECD) programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based ECD centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages that had no pre-existing structured ECD services. In the second experiment, a randomly assigned subset of existing ECD centers received intensive provider training. We find no evidence that either intervention improved average levels of child development. Exploratory analysis suggests that the first experiment, which increased access to community-based ECD services, led to declines in child development among children from less disadvantaged households.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1086/714013 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org//10.1086/714013 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112411 |
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