Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines

More attention and resources have been devoted in recent years to early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various dimensions in the developing world are scant. Th...

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Main Authors:	Armecin, Graeme, Behrman, Jere R., Duazo, Paulita, Ghuman, Sharon, Gultiano, Socorro, King, Elizabeth M., Lee, Nannette
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGED ATTENTION AUTISM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONTROL GROUPS COUNSELING DAY CARE DAY CARE CENTERS DAY CARE PROVIDERS DAY CARE WORKERS DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL DIARRHEAL DISEASES EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EARLY EDUCATION ECCD ECCD PROGRAMS ECD ECD PROGRAMS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FAMILIES FINE MOTOR SKILLS FORMAL EDUCATION GROWTH MONITORING HEAD START HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HOME VISITS HOSPITALS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMUNIZATION INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INSTRUCTION INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS IRON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE SKILLS LEARNING LITERACY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MEDICINES MIGRATION MORTALITY MOTOR SKILLS NUMERACY NURSES NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARENT EDUCATION PARENTING PATIENTS POPULATION STUDIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY PRESCHOOL RECOGNITION SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SKILLS SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS THOUGHTS VERBAL COMMUNICATION WALKING WORKERS YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGSTERS YOUTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/6783625/early-childhood-development-through-integrated-program-evidence-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8659

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spelling	okr-10986-86592021-04-23T14:02:40Z Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines Armecin, Graeme Behrman, Jere R. Duazo, Paulita Ghuman, Sharon Gultiano, Socorro King, Elizabeth M. Lee, Nannette AGED ATTENTION AUTISM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONTROL GROUPS COUNSELING DAY CARE DAY CARE CENTERS DAY CARE PROVIDERS DAY CARE WORKERS DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL DIARRHEAL DISEASES EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EARLY EDUCATION ECCD ECCD PROGRAMS ECD ECD PROGRAMS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FAMILIES FINE MOTOR SKILLS FORMAL EDUCATION GROWTH MONITORING HEAD START HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HOME VISITS HOSPITALS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMUNIZATION INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INSTRUCTION INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS IRON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE SKILLS LEARNING LITERACY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MEDICINES MIGRATION MORTALITY MOTOR SKILLS NUMERACY NURSES NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARENT EDUCATION PARENTING PATIENTS POPULATION STUDIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY PRESCHOOL RECOGNITION SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SKILLS SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS THOUGHTS VERBAL COMMUNICATION WALKING WORKERS YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGSTERS YOUTH More attention and resources have been devoted in recent years to early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various dimensions in the developing world are scant. The authors evaluate an important ECD initiative of the Philippine government using longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and a "control" region that did not receive the intervention. The initiative includes a wide range of health, nutrition, early education, and social services programs. The authors estimate its impact by using "intent-to-treat" difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimators to control for a variety of observed characteristics measured at the municipality, barangay, household, and child level and unobserved fixed characteristics, with differential impacts by age of children and duration of exposure to the program. There has been a significant improvement in the cognitive, social, motor, and language development, and in short-term nutritional status of children who reside in ECD program areas compared to those in non-program areas, particularly for those under age four at the end of the evaluation period. The proportions of children below age four with worms and diarrhea also have been lowered significantly in program compared to non-program areas, but there are effects in the opposite direction for older children so the overall impact on these two indicators is mixed. 2012-06-21T17:02:21Z 2012-06-21T17:02:21Z 2006-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/6783625/early-childhood-development-through-integrated-program-evidence-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8659 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3922 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Philippines
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topic	AGED ATTENTION AUTISM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONTROL GROUPS COUNSELING DAY CARE DAY CARE CENTERS DAY CARE PROVIDERS DAY CARE WORKERS DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL DIARRHEAL DISEASES EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EARLY EDUCATION ECCD ECCD PROGRAMS ECD ECD PROGRAMS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FAMILIES FINE MOTOR SKILLS FORMAL EDUCATION GROWTH MONITORING HEAD START HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HOME VISITS HOSPITALS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMUNIZATION INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INSTRUCTION INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS IRON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE SKILLS LEARNING LITERACY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MEDICINES MIGRATION MORTALITY MOTOR SKILLS NUMERACY NURSES NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARENT EDUCATION PARENTING PATIENTS POPULATION STUDIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY PRESCHOOL RECOGNITION SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SKILLS SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS THOUGHTS VERBAL COMMUNICATION WALKING WORKERS YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGSTERS YOUTH
spellingShingle	AGED ATTENTION AUTISM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD MALNUTRITION COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONTROL GROUPS COUNSELING DAY CARE DAY CARE CENTERS DAY CARE PROVIDERS DAY CARE WORKERS DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL DIARRHEAL DISEASES EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EARLY EDUCATION ECCD ECCD PROGRAMS ECD ECD PROGRAMS EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FAMILIES FINE MOTOR SKILLS FORMAL EDUCATION GROWTH MONITORING HEAD START HEALTH CARE HEALTH SERVICES HOME VISITS HOSPITALS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMUNIZATION INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS INSTRUCTION INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS IRON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE SKILLS LEARNING LITERACY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT MALNUTRITION MEDICINES MIGRATION MORTALITY MOTOR SKILLS NUMERACY NURSES NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARENT EDUCATION PARENTING PATIENTS POPULATION STUDIES PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY PRESCHOOL RECOGNITION SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SKILLS SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING MATERIALS THOUGHTS VERBAL COMMUNICATION WALKING WORKERS YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGSTERS YOUTH Armecin, Graeme Behrman, Jere R. Duazo, Paulita Ghuman, Sharon Gultiano, Socorro King, Elizabeth M. Lee, Nannette Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3922
description	More attention and resources have been devoted in recent years to early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various dimensions in the developing world are scant. The authors evaluate an important ECD initiative of the Philippine government using longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and a "control" region that did not receive the intervention. The initiative includes a wide range of health, nutrition, early education, and social services programs. The authors estimate its impact by using "intent-to-treat" difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimators to control for a variety of observed characteristics measured at the municipality, barangay, household, and child level and unobserved fixed characteristics, with differential impacts by age of children and duration of exposure to the program. There has been a significant improvement in the cognitive, social, motor, and language development, and in short-term nutritional status of children who reside in ECD program areas compared to those in non-program areas, particularly for those under age four at the end of the evaluation period. The proportions of children below age four with worms and diarrhea also have been lowered significantly in program compared to non-program areas, but there are effects in the opposite direction for older children so the overall impact on these two indicators is mixed.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Armecin, Graeme Behrman, Jere R. Duazo, Paulita Ghuman, Sharon Gultiano, Socorro King, Elizabeth M. Lee, Nannette
author_facet	Armecin, Graeme Behrman, Jere R. Duazo, Paulita Ghuman, Sharon Gultiano, Socorro King, Elizabeth M. Lee, Nannette
author_sort	Armecin, Graeme
title	Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
title_short	Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
title_full	Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
title_fullStr	Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
title_full_unstemmed	Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines
title_sort	early childhood development through an integrated program : evidence from the philippines
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/6783625/early-childhood-development-through-integrated-program-evidence-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8659
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Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program : Evidence from the Philippines

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