Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year followup to an experimental intervention in Jamaica (English)

This paper finds large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality...
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Chang-Lopez, Susan; Gertler,Paul J.; Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally; Heckman,James J.; Pinto,Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes; Vermeersch,Christel M. J.; Walker, Susan; Zanolini, Arianna.

Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year followup to an experimental intervention in Jamaica (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 6529 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/388661468040444014

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