Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119572 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W15/06
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of maternal skills and child's past skills, as well as material and time investments that are treated as endogenous. The effects of the program can be fully explained by increases in parental investments, which have strong effects on outcomes and are complementary to both maternal skills and child's past skills.
Subjects: 
development
childhood
human capital
Colombia
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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