Promoting Early Childhood Development through Combining Cash Transfers and Parenting Programs
This paper examines the potential for bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs focused on child stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both types o...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/827231544474543725/Promoting-Early-Childhood-Development-through-Combining-Cash-Transfers-and-Parenting-Programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30992 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the potential for
bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs
focused on child stimulation to boost child development,
particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews
the rationale for linking both types of programs and the
evidence to date on the impact of cash transfer programs,
parenting programs, and their combination. The paper reviews
the main operational features of 10 examples of combining
cash transfer and parenting interventions and identifies
four models for structuring the combination: integrated,
convergence, alignment, and piggy-backing. The paper finds
promising evidence for combining the interventions, where
adding the parenting program to the cash transfer program
has improved some parental practices and child development
outcomes, with results in cognition and language. However,
the evidence is still scarce, and more research is needed to
understand the key elements of the optimal combinations,
fidelity of implementation, cost-effectiveness of different
design features, replicability, and sustainability of results. |
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