This paper reports the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987–89, treatment consisted of a two-year, home-based intervention designed to improve nutrition and the quality of mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language, and psycho-social skills. The original sample was 127 stunted children between ages 9 and 24 months. The study was able to track and interview 75 percent of the original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. The findings reveal large and statistically significant effects on income and schooling; the treatment group had 43 percent higher hourly wages and 37 percent higher earnings than the control group. This is a substantial increase over the treatment effect estimated for age 22, when a 25 percent increase in earnings was observed.
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Gertler,Paul J., Heckman,James J., Pinto,Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes, Chang-Lopez,Susan M., Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally, Vermeersch,Christel M. J., Walker,Susan, Wright,Amika S.
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Document Date
2021/09/30
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Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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Report Number
WPS9787
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1
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1
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2021/09/30
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
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Keywords
treatment effect; Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund; stunted child; Early childhood; Early Childhood Development; early childhood intervention; higher education diploma; Early childhood education; early childhood program; labor market outcome; department of economics; hypothesis testing; nutritional supplementation; mother and child; home visit program; early child development; curriculum for child; living in poverty; distribution of migrants; less developed country; equality of distribution; center for health; effect on employment; primary health-care; children at risk; highly skilled labor; cumulative distribution function; labor force participation; research on children; health and nutrition; average treatment effect; early childhood stimulation; small sample; causal effect; disadvantaged child; nutrition intervention; standard deviation
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Gertler,Paul J. Heckman,James J. Pinto,Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes Chang-Lopez,Susan M. Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally Vermeersch,Christel M. J. Walker,Susan Wright,Amika S.
Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31 (English). Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 9787 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/105461633005046760/Effect-of-the-Jamaica-Early-Childhood-Stimulation-Intervention-on-Labor-Market-Outcomes-at-Age-31