@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17133,
            	author={Blimpo, Moussa and Carneiro, Pedro and Ortiz, Pamela Jervis and Lahire, Nathalie and Pugatch, Todd},
            	title={Improving Parental Investments in Children: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia},
            	year={2024},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17133},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17133},
	abstract={We study two early childhood programs in The Gambia for children between 0 and 3 years of age. The basic version of the program, called Baby Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI), provides parents with child health and nutrition information delivered through home visits and community meetings. A second version, called BFCI+, is center-based and adds cognitive stimulation to the basic version of the program through activities with children. Villages were randomly assigned to one of two versions of the program or to a control group that received neither. The BFCI+ program had moderate impacts on parental investments in children in terms of resources and time. Child language development improved for well-off parents or parents in the more well-off region. Poorer parents invested more in time spent with the children, whereas those who were more materially well-off spent more financial resources on the children. The basic version of the program, the BFCI, had no detectable impacts.},
	keywords={early childhood development;cognitive stimulation;teacher training;The Gambia;randomized controlled trials;Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool},
            }