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  • Bogota Measurements - Predictive Validity Bayley Short Tests Survey Data: 2011-2016
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    By Health, Nutrition and Population Division (VPS/SCL/HNP)
    This dataset contains longitudinal data collected on child development outcomes, child characteristics, and parental and home characteristics on 937 children living in a representative sample of low- and low-middle-income households in Bogota, Colombia. The first round of data was collected in 2011 when 1,311 children ages 6-42 months were given the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley-III) by psychologists and were randomized to receive one of two batteries of short tests under survey conditions. In 2016, at 6-8 years, 940 of these children were found and given tests of IQ (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, WISC-V) and school achievement (arithmetic, reading, and vocabulary) by psychologists. These 937 children, excluding outliers, constitute the analysis sample of the paper Predictive validity in middle childhood of short tests of early childhood development used in large scale studies compared to the Bayley-III, the Family Care Indicators, height-for-...
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    Geographic coverage Colombia

    Temporal coverage 2011-2016

    Published date 2020-03-31

  • Data associated with: The Early Years Child Well - Being And The Role Of Public Policy
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    Child well-being matters for both ethical and economic reasons as children who flourish in the early years are more likely to become healthy, productive citizens later in life. This year’s edition of Development in the Americas (DIA) focuses on the well-being of children from conception to 8 years of age and makes the case for public intervention in improving child outcomes. The process of child development—physical, communicational, cognitive, and socio-emotional— does not unfold on its own, but is shaped by the experiences children accumulate at home, in daycare centers, and at school. Parents, relatives, other caregivers, teachers, and government all have a hand in shaping those experiences. This book offers suggestions for public policy to improve those experiences in ways that would certainly shape children’s lives and the face of the societies they live in for years to come.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 1990-2014

    Published date 2016-01-04

  • Bogota Measurements - Concurrent Validity Bayley-Short Tests Survey Data: Early Childhood Development in Large Scale Studies
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    By Health, Nutrition and Population Division (VPS/SCL/HNP)
    This dataset contains cross-sectional data collected on child development outcomes, child characteristics, and parental and home characteristics for a sample of 1,311 children ages 6-42 months of age living in a representative sample of low- and low-middle-income households in Bogota, Colombia. This is the sample used for the analysis in the paper “Concurrent Validity andFeasibility of Short Tests Currently Used to Measure Early Childhood Development in Large Scale Studies” by Marta Rubio-Codina, M Caridad Araujo, Orazio Attanasio, Pablo Muñoz and Sally Grantam-McGregor, forthcoming at PLOS ONE. The dataset and do files shared allow replication of the results in the paper. Please note that these data can only be used for non-commercial research purposes given the IDB data sharing standards and in order to comply with the commitment acquired by the researchers with study participants by means of the informed consent.
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    Geographic coverage Colombia

    Temporal coverage 2011-2011

    Published date 2016-10-08

  • Ecuador Longitudinal Survey of Child Health and Development, Rounds 1-5 (2003-2014)
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    By Health, Nutrition and Population Division (VPS/SCL/HNP)
    Very few developing countries have long-term longitudinal surveys that have followed children from the early years throughout their adult life, with low attrition rates and large sample sizes. This type of survey is essential to understand what are critical times in the life cycle when gaps in different dimensions of human capital emerge and how they evolve over time and affect later outcomes. The Ecuador longitudinal survey started in 2003 and has had 5 subsequent follow-ups: 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2019. This data set contains the first five of them. A large number of papers has been written using this data (Paxson and Schady 2007; Paxson and Schady 2010 ; Schady 2006; Fernald and Hidrobo 2011 ; Schady 2011 ; Schady 2012; Schady, Behrman et al. 2015; Berlinsky and Schady, 2015; Araujo, Bosch, Maldonado and Schady 2017; Araujo, Bosch and Schady 2016, and others). All rounds of the survey administered tests to measure different areas of child development (cognition, language,...
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    Geographic coverage Ecuador

    Temporal coverage 2003-2014

    Published date 2020-06-12