Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India.

We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India's Integrated Child Development Services. Adding a worker doubled net preschool instructional time and led to increases of 0.28σ and 0.46σ in math and lan...

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Published in:	Journal of Political Economy Vol. 132; no. 5; pp. 1565 - 1603
Main Authors:	Ganimian, Alejandro J., Muralidharan, Karthik, Walters, Christopher R.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press May2024
Subjects:	India Child development Capacity building Cost benefit analysis Child services Language ability testing
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