Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-Term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions

Karen Macours

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Abstract: It is often assumed that early life circumstances, in particular before age two, are important for later human capital development. Using experimental variation in the timing of benefits from a conditional cash transfer program, we test the hypothesis that intervention starting in utero and continuing in the first two years is critical. At age ten, boys exposed to the program during this period had better cognitive, but not anthropometric, outcomes than those exposed in their second year of life or later. The lack of a differential effect on anthropometrics was due catch-up growth.

Keywords: Conditional; cash; transfer; program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05
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Published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), pp.467-471. ⟨10.1257/aer.103.3.467⟩

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Journal Article: Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-Term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions (2013)
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.3.467

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