Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment: (inline image) Effect on Adults’ Outcomes and Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Victor Lavy; Giulia Lotti; Zizhong Yan

doi:10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9083R2

Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment: (inline image) Effect on Adults’ Outcomes and Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Victor Lavy^*, Giulia Lotti, Zizhong Yan

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	821-867
Number of pages	47
Journal	Journal of Human Resources
Volume	57
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.3.0917-9083R2
State	Published - May 2022
Externally published	Yes

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