Impact Evaluation of Parental Education Campaign on Child Development in Nepal

Florence Arestoff (), Olivia Bertelli, Elodie Djemai, Dirgha Ghimire and Uttam Sharma
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Florence Arestoff: Universit´e Paris-Dauphine, Universit´e PSL, LEDa, CNRS, IRD, [DIAL], 75016 Paris, France
Dirgha Ghimire: University of Michigan, US; ISER-N, Nepal
Uttam Sharma: Institute for Social and Environmental Research, Nepal (ISER-N), Nepal

No DT/2025/07, Working Papers from DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)

Abstract: This study assesses the impacts of a parental education community training on child development in Nepal. Relying on a sample of approximately 1,000 households, we randomly vary the access to the intervention. A few months after the end of the intervention, children in the treatment group exhibit significantly higher scores on early childhood development indicators—both overall and across linguistic, motor, and cognitive domains. In turn, the intervention has no sizable effects on anthropometric outcomes. Mechanism analysis reveals that the program improves parental knowledge about child development and enhances the quality of parent-child interactions.

Keywords: Early Childhood Development; Impact evaluation; Randomized Control Trial; Nepal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J13 O22 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2025-09
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