Why Invest in Early Child Development?

Why Invest in Newborn Health ?

The survival of newborn babies depends on the care we provide. International agreements have affirmed the world’s commitment to improving newborn health, and recent global assessments have confirmed that doing so makes good social and economic sense. But newborn care often receives less-thanoptimum attention. Although child survival programs have helped reduce the death rate among children unde...

Why We Must Invest in Early Adolescence: Early Intervention, Lasting Impact

Over the past 20 years, we have seen global reductions in maternal mortality and gains in early childhood survival [1]. As world leaders are now increasingly focused on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that all women, girls, and adolescents have equal chances of surviving and thriving, it is timely for us as funders to use our collective voice to heighten glo...

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within...

Labor Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within...

Ending preventable stillbirths 3 Stillbirth: Why invest?