Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines

Noam Angrist, Sarah Kabay, Dean Karlan, Lincoln Lau and Kevin Wong

No 33574, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3 and 5, with a focus on math and phonics skills. Children gain 0.52 and 0.51 standard deviations relative to the control group on math and phonics tests, respectively (p

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Date: 2025-03
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