Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Attanasio, Orazio; Baker-Henningham, Helen; Bernal, Raquel; Meghir, Costas; Pineda, Diana; Rubio-Codina, Marta
• 署名单位: Yale University; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Bangor University; University West Indies Mona Jamaica; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Inter-American Development Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac005
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1395-1432
• 关键词: weight premature-infants; primary-health-care; child-development; responsive stimulation; parenting intervention; randomized-trial; home-visitation; program; GROWTH; AGE

摘要

Early childhood development is becoming the focus of policy worldwide. However, the evidence on the effectiveness of scalable models is scant, particularly when it comes to infants in developing countries. In this paper, we describe and evaluate with a cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial an intervention designed to improve the quality of child stimulation within the context of an existing parenting program in Colombia, known as FAMI. The intervention improved children's development by 0.16 of a standard deviation (SD) and children's nutritional status, as reflected in a reduction of 5.8 percentage points of children whose height-for-age is below -1 SD.