Cluster randomised trial of the effects of timing and duration of early childhood interventions in Odisha – India: Study protocol

Published on 21 March 2019

Many children in developing countries grow up in unstimulating environments, leading to deficiencies in early years’ developmental outcomes, particularly cognition and language. Interventions to improve parenting in the first 3 years of life have a clear impact on these outcomes, but the sustainability of effects is mixed, particularly for scalable interventions. There is little evidence of the effect of following-up an early life intervention with another one immediately afterwards. The objective of this study is to help fill this gap.

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Many children in developing countries grow up in unstimulating environments, leading to deficiencies in early years’ developmental outcomes, particularly cognition and language. Interventions to improve parenting in the first 3 years of life have a clear impact on these outcomes, but the sustainability of effects is mixed, particularly for scalable interventions. There is little evidence of the effect of following-up an early life intervention with another one immediately afterwards. The objective of this study is to help fill this gap.

Authors

Orazio Attanasio
Orazio Attanasio

CPP Co-Director

Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir

Research Fellow Yale University

Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

Marta Rubio Codina
Marta Rubio Codina

Research Associate

Marta is a Research Associate, working at the Centre for Evaluation of Development Policies at IFS and at the Inter-American Development.

Britta Augsburg
Britta Augsburg

Associate Director

Britta is an IFS Associate Director, Associate Staff at the Department of Economics at the UC and Researcher at NIHR Obesity Policy Research Unit.

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Sally Grantham-McGregor

Pamela Jervis
Pamela Jervis

Research Associate University of Chile

Pamela is a Research Associate of the IFS and Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile.

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Angus Phimister

Working Paper details

DOI
10.1920/wp.ifs.2019.0619
Publisher
The IFS

Suggested citation

Attanasio, O et al. (2019). Cluster randomised trial of the effects of timing and duration of early childhood interventions in Odisha – India: Study protocol. London: The IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/cluster-randomised-trial-effects-timing-and-duration-early-childhood-interventions (accessed: 19 April 2024).

Grant

Early childhood development and pre-school programmes in Odisha India

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