Impacts of Integrating Early Childhood with Health Services: Experimental Evidence from the Cresça Com Seu Filho Home Visiting Program

Florencia Lopez Boo, Maria de la Paz Ferro and Pedro Carneiro
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Maria de la Paz Ferro: Inter-American Development Bank

No 17130, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Delivering early childhood programs at scale is a major policy challenge. One way to do so is by using existing public infrastructure. This paper experimentally assesses the short-term impacts of a new government home visiting program integrated into health care services. The program changed the allocation of time for community health workers, asking them to carry out early childhood development-related tasks. We find that access to the program has a positive but modest impact on home environment quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload, supervision and buy-in from delivery actors to enhance fidelity of interventions.

Keywords: early childhood; parenting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2024-07
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