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IDB Publications (Books) | 2015

The Early Years: Child Well-being and the Role of Public Policy

María Caridad Araujo; Martín Ardanaz; Edna Armendáriz; Jere R. Behrman; Samuel Berlinski; Julian P. Cristia; Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo; Luca Flabbi; Diana Hincapie; Analía Jalmovich; Sharon Lynn Kagan; Florencia López Bóo; Ana Pérez Expósito; Norbert Schady

This synopsis reviews the arguments in favor of a larger role for public policy in determining the well-being of young children. It explains where the region is in terms of child well-being today, how it should go about improving public programs, and the institutional challenges to implementing those programs. Together, this synopsis and the table of contents provide just a taste of the rich information and valuable policy implications contained in this years edition of the DIA.El bienestar infantil es importante tanto por razones eticas como economicas porque los ninos que prosperan en los primeros anos tienen mas probabilidad de volverse ciudadanos productivos y saludables en el futuro. Este ano, la edicion de Desarrollo en las Americas (DIA) se centra en el bienestar infantil desde la concepcion hasta los 8 anos de edad y establece la necesidad por la intervencion publica para mejorar los resultados de los ninos. El proceso del desarrollo del nino - fisico, comunicativo, cognitivo y socio-emocional - esta determinado por las experiencias que los ninos acumulan en el hogar, las guarderias, y en la escuela. Los padres, familiares, otros cuidadores, maestros y el gobierno influyen en la formacion de esas experiencias. Este libro ofrece sugerencias para la formulacion de la politica publica para mejorar esas experiencias de manera que sin duda marcaran la vida de los ninos y las sociedades en las que viven.


IDB Publications (Books) | 2016

How is Child Care Quality Measured?: A toolkit

Florencia López Bóo; María Caridad Araujo; Romina Tomé

This toolkit is designed to be a resource for researchers and technical staff of any discipline, working for governments and institutions interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants ages 0 to 3 years (36 months).


MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION | 2015

La medición de la calidad de los servicios de visitas domiciliarias: Una revisión de la literatura

Sara Schodt; James Parr; María Caridad Araujo; Marta Rubio-Codina

This document reviews the literature on the definition and measurement of quality of home visiting programs designed to promote early childhood development, with a particular focus on those interventions aimed at enhancing child cognitive, language, and socio-emotional outcomes. After summarizing the evidence on home visiting programs in the United States and internationally, we discuss the key elements that define a high quality home visit. Next, we describe a range of instruments designed to measure both structural and process elements of quality of home visits, instances in which they have been used, and the results of their administration.


Archive | 2018

Quality of Parenting Programs and Child Development Outcomes: The Case of Peru's Cuna Mas

María Caridad Araujo; Marta Dormal; Marta Rubio-Codina

This paper analyzes the association between quality of parenting programs and child development outcomes. It focuses on parenting programs delivered through home visits (i.e., home visiting programs) in which a paraprofessional works with the caregiver to improve parental practices, skills and knowledge of child development, with an application to the Peruvian national program Programa Nacional Cuna Mas. Home visiting quality is measured through the Home Visit Rating Scale, version A+2 (HOVRS-A+2), and child development outcomes through the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) and the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley-III). The empirical analysis used is descriptive in nature. Results show that home visiting quality scores are significantly associated with our measures of child development, but this association is not consistent across all measures.


MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION | 2016

Los primeros años de vida de los niños peruanos : una fotografía sobre el bienestar y el desarrollo de los niños del Programa Nacional Cuna Más

Marta Rubio-Codina; Romina Tomé; María Caridad Araujo

El Programa Nacional Cuna Mas (PNCM) atiende a ninos menores de 36 meses en zonas de pobreza y pobreza extrema con el objetivo de mejorar su nivel de desarrollo. El PNCM brinda dos servicios: el Servicio de Acompanamiento a Familias (SAF) en zonas rurales y el Servicio de Cuidado Diurno (SCD) en zonas urbanas. A partir de los datos de las lineas de base de las evaluaciones de impacto de ambos servicios, este documento describe y compara las caracteristicas de los ninos y ninas potencialmente beneficiarios y sus familias. Por lo general, los hogares de la muestra del SCD presentan mejores indicadores relacionados con el bienestar que los hogares del SAF: tipo de vivienda, nivel de riqueza, acceso a servicios, y mayor cantidad y variedad de materiales y actividades de juego. A pesar de ello, los niveles de desarrollo infantil son muy similares entre los ninos en las dos muestras. Asimismo, se observan brechas socioeconomicas en el desarrollo infantil mas marcadas en los ninos de la muestra del SAF que en los de la muestra del SCD. Si bien las muestras de analisis no tienen representatividad nacional, constituyen una inestimable fuente de informacion sobre el desarrollo infantil, la calidad del entorno familiar y las condiciones de vida de los ninos y ninas menores de 2 anos en hogares vulnerables en el Peru rural y urbano.


Archive | 2015

Os primeiros anos: O bem-estar infantil e o papel das políticas públicas

María Caridad Araujo; Martín Ardanaz; Edna Armendáriz; Jere R. Behrman; Samuel Berlinski; Julian P. Cristia; Luca Flabbi; Diana Hincapie; Analía Jalmovich; Sharon Lynn Kagan; Florencia López Bóo; Ana Pérez Expósito; Norbert Schady

This synopsis reviews the arguments in favor of a larger role for public policy in determining the well-being of young children. It explains where the region is in terms of child well-being today, how it should go about improving public programs, and the institutional challenges to implementing those programs. Together, this synopsis and the table of contents provide just a taste of the rich information and valuable policy implications contained in this years edition of the DIA.El bienestar infantil es importante tanto por razones eticas como economicas porque los ninos que prosperan en los primeros anos tienen mas probabilidad de volverse ciudadanos productivos y saludables en el futuro. Este ano, la edicion de Desarrollo en las Americas (DIA) se centra en el bienestar infantil desde la concepcion hasta los 8 anos de edad y establece la necesidad por la intervencion publica para mejorar los resultados de los ninos. El proceso del desarrollo del nino - fisico, comunicativo, cognitivo y socio-emocional - esta determinado por las experiencias que los ninos acumulan en el hogar, las guarderias, y en la escuela. Los padres, familiares, otros cuidadores, maestros y el gobierno influyen en la formacion de esas experiencias. Este libro ofrece sugerencias para la formulacion de la politica publica para mejorar esas experiencias de manera que sin duda marcaran la vida de los ninos y las sociedades en las que viven.


Archive | 2015

La calidad de los Centros Infantiles del Buen Vivir en Ecuador

María Caridad Araujo; Florencia Lopez-Boo; Rafael Novella; Sara Schodt; Romina Tomé

This study analyzes data collected in 2012 from a sample of public child care centers in Ecuador. It aims to characterize different quality aspects of the services provided by these centers to children under 3 years of age. The main finding is that the child care services studied have a considerable margin for improvement in terms of structural and process aspects. The quality challenges faced by these centers are consistent with those of similar services in different countries throughout the region, such as Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. The study also finds that while efforts undertaken in recent years in Ecuador to improve service quality are aimed in the right direction, continuous, long-term interventions will be required in order to make significant improvements in the quality indicators studied. The most complex changes?but also the most necessary?are related to aspects of process quality, particularly those connected to the training of child care staff and the skill-building necessary to offer experiences that maximize well-being and promote learning in all areas of child development.


Economica | 2008

Cash Transfers, Conditions, and School Enrollment in Ecuador

Norbert Schady; María Caridad Araujo


Archive | 2013

Overview of Early Childhood Development Services in Latin America and the Caribbean

María Caridad Araujo; Florencia López Bóo; Juan Manuel Puyana


Archive | 2013

Panorama sobre los servicios de desarrollo infantil temprano en América Latina y el Caribe

María Caridad Araujo; Florencia López Bóo; Juan Manuel Puyana

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Florencia López Bóo

Inter-American Development Bank

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Norbert Schady

Inter-American Development Bank

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Sharon Lynn Kagan

Inter-American Development Bank

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Ana Pérez Expósito

Inter-American Development Bank

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Julian P. Cristia

Inter-American Development Bank

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Jere R. Behrman

University of Pennsylvania

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Florencia Lopez-Boo

Inter-American Development Bank

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Jere R. Behrman

University of Pennsylvania

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