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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment

Effect on Adults’ Outcomes and Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Victor Lavy, View ORCID ProfileGiulia Lotti and View ORCID ProfileZizhong Yan
Journal of Human Resources, May 2022, 57 (3) 821-867; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9083R2
Victor Lavy
Victor Lavy is Professor at the University of Warwick and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, affiliated with NBER and CEPR ().
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Giulia Lotti
Giulia Lotti is Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, affiliated with CAGE Warwick.
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Zizhong Yan
Zizhong Yan is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research in Jinan University.
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Empowering women and enhancing children’s early development are two important goals often pursued via independent policy initiatives. In this work we study a unique approach that targets both at the same time. AVSI, an Italian NGO, provides family advisor-guided parent training sessions in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador. We find that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher likelihood of employment in the formal sector and wages. Treated mothers have a greater role in intrahousehold decisions, especially on children’s education and discipline, and increased parental inputs into their children’s development. Treated children improve their cognitive and noncognitive skills.

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  • O15
  • Received September 2017.
  • Accepted March 2020.

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Victor Lavy, Giulia Lotti, Zizhong Yan
Journal of Human Resources May 2022, 57 (3) 821-867; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9083R2

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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment
Victor Lavy, Giulia Lotti, Zizhong Yan
Journal of Human Resources May 2022, 57 (3) 821-867; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9083R2
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