Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study (英语)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study, conducted during the time period between 1986-1987 in Jamaica. The study observed... 更多显示 This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study, conducted during the time period between 1986-1987 in Jamaica. The study observed that large effects on earnings of a randomized intervention that gave stimulation to stunted toddlers living in poverty. The intervention was a one-hour weekly visit from a community health worker over a 2-year period that taught and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and socio-emotional skills. The stimulation at an early age led to an increase in earnings of 50 percent for all workers and 63 percent for workers in full time permanent jobs. The treatment group caught up with a matched non-stunted comparison group. Overall there is no clear difference in outcomes between the genders. However, cognitive skills were significantly improved for men, but not women and internalizing and externalizing behaviors significantly improved for only females. Funding for the study derived from Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, the American Bar Foundation, The Pritzker Children's Initiative, NICHD, the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, Institute for New Economic Thinking, European Research Council.  更少显示