Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (English)

Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study was to test several variants of a potentially scalable, cost-effective intervention to...

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Knauer,Heather Ashley;

Jakiela,Pamela;

Ozier,Owen;

Aboud,Frances E;

Fernald,Lia C.H.;
Document Date
2019/02/07
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8733
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Kenya,
Region
Eastern And Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2019/02/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
Keywords
data collection procedure

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Knauer,Heather Ashley; Jakiela,Pamela; Ozier,Owen; Aboud,Frances E; Fernald,Lia C.H..

Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8733 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/792621549557749427

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