Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
This paper reports the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/105461633005046760/Effect-of-the-Jamaica-Early-Childhood-Stimulation-Intervention-on-Labor-Market-Outcomes-at-Age-31 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36335 |
| Summary: | This paper reports the labor market
effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation
intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample
randomized early childhood education stimulation
intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor
neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987–89,
treatment consisted of a two-year, home-based intervention
designed to improve nutrition and the quality of
mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language, and
psycho-social skills. The original sample was 127 stunted
children between ages 9 and 24 months. The study was able to
track and interview 75 percent of the original sample 30
years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica
and migrated abroad. The findings reveal large and
statistically significant effects on income and schooling;
the treatment group had 43 percent higher hourly wages and
37 percent higher earnings than the control group. This is a
substantial increase over the treatment effect estimated for
age 22, when a 25 percent increase in earnings was observed. |
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