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We evaluate two experiments of early childhood development (ECD) programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based ECD centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages that had no pre-existing structured ECD services. In the second experiment, a randomly assigned subset of existing ECD centers received intensive provider training. We find no evidence that either intervention improved average levels of child development. Exploratory analysis suggests that the first experiment, which increased access to community-based ECD services, led to declines in child development among children from less disadvantaged households.

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Author

Moussa P. Blimpo; Pedro Carneiro; Pamela Jervis; Todd Pugatch

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences