Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment
研究意大利非政府组织在厄瓜多尔贫民区提供的家长培训项目，发现该计划同时提升了母亲的就业、工资和家庭决策权，并增加了对儿童发展的投入，改善了儿童的认知与非认知技能。
Empowering women and enhancing children’s early development are two important goals often pursued via independent policy initiatives. In this paper we study a unique approach that targets both at the same time. AVSI, an Italian NGO, provides family advisor-guided parent training sessions in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador. We find that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher likelihood of employment in the formal-sector and wages. Treated mothers have a greater role in intra-household decisions, especially on children’s education and discipline and increase parental inputs into their children’s development. Treated children improve their cognitive and non-cognitive skills. \n \n