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

Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir, Angus Phimister and Marta Rubio Codina
IFS Working Paper W19/06

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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DOI 10.1920/wp.ifs.2019.0619
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