Human Capital Accumulation in Developing Countries: Mechanisms, Constraints and Policies

Project Information

HKADeC

Grant agreement ID: 695300

DOI 10.3030/695300

Project closed

EC signature date 10 October 2016

Start date 1 November 2016

End date 31 October 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 781 278,75

EU contribution € 1 781 278,00

Coordinated by

Institute for Fiscal Studies
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Helen Baker-Henningham, Raquel Bernal, Costas Meghir, Diana Pineda, Marta Rubio-Codina
Published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, Issue Volume 20, Issue 4, August 2022, 2022, Page(s) 1395-1432, ISSN 1542-4766
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac005

Impacts 2 years after a scalable early childhood development intervention to increase psychosocial stimulation in the home: A follow-up of a cluster randomised controlled trial in Colombia

Author(s): Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir, Marta Rubio-Codina
Published in: PLoS Med, Issue 2018 Apr 24; 15(4):e1002556, 2018, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002556

Effects of a scalable home‐visiting intervention on child development in slums of urban India: evidence from a randomised controlled trial

Author(s): Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Monimalika Day, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir, Fardina Mehrin, Smriti Pahwa, Marta Rubio-Codina
Published in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Issue 2020 Jun, 61(6), 2019, Page(s) 644-652, ISSN 0021-9630
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13171

From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China’s Family Planning Cadres

Author(s): Sean Sylvia, Nele Warrinnier, Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Orazio Attanasio, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle
Published in: The Economic Journal, Issue Volume 131, Issue 635, April 2021, 2021, Page(s) 1365-1400, ISSN 0013-0133
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa114

Lively Minds: improving health and development through play–a randomised controlled trial evaluation of a comprehensive ECCE programme at scale in Ghana

Author(s): Britta Augsburg, Orazio Attanasio, Robert Dreibelbis, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Angus Phimister, Sharon Wolf, Sonya Krutikova
Published in: BMJ Open, Issue Volume 12, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061571

Human capital growth and poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Emily Nix, Francesca Salvati
Published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, Issue 25, 2017, Page(s) 234-259, ISSN 1094-2025
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2017.02.002

The effects of the transition from home-based childcare to childcare centers on children’s health and development in Colombia

Author(s): Raquel Bernal, Orazio Attanasio, Ximena Peña, Marcos Vera-Hernández
Published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2018, ISSN 0885-2006
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.08.005

Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort comparison

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason
Published in: Journal of Public Economics, Issue 2020 Nov; 191:104171, 2020, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 0047-2727
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104171

Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT

Author(s): Sally Grantham-McGregor, Akanksha Adya, Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Jere Behrman, Bet Caeyers, Monimalika Day, Pamela Jervis, Reema Kochar, Prerna Makkar, Costas Meghir, Angus Phimister, Karishma Vats
Published in: Pediatrics, Issue 2020 Decl 146(6):e2020002725, 2020, ISSN 0022-3476
Publisher: Mosby Inc.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-002725

Other (14)

Breastfeeding and child development

Author(s): Emla Fitsimons, Marcos Vera-Hernandez
Published in: IFS working paper 21/38, 2021
Publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies
DOI: 10.1257/app.20180385

Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Raquel Bernal, Michele Giannola, Milagros Nores
Published in: Working Paper 27812, 2020
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
DOI: 10.3386/w27812

Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Pedro Carneiro, David K Evans, Lycia Lima, Pedro Olinto, Norbert Schady
Published in: NBER Working Paper 30653, Issue November 2022, 2022
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
DOI: 10.3386/w30653

Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Emily Nix
Published in: The Review of Economic Studies, Issue Volume 87, Issue 6, November 2020, 2020, Page(s) 2511-2541
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdaa026

Parental capacity and skills formation during infancy and youth: long term evidence from an early childhood intervention

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Darwin Cortes, Juan Gallego, Darío Maldonado, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes, Nathalie Charpak, Rejean Tessier, Juan Gabriel Ruiz, Tiberio Hernandez, Felipe Uriza, and Andrés Gallegos
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Not yet published

Economics and Measurement: New measures to model decision making

Author(s): Ingvild Almas, Orazio Attanasio, Pamela Jervis
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Campus Press Yale University

Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: evidence from a survey experiment

Author(s): Michele Giannola
Published in: IFS Working Paper 22/54, 2022
Publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies

Preschool quality and child development

Author(s): Alison Andrew, Orazio Attanasio, Raquel Bernal, Lina Cardona Sosa, Marta Rubio-Codina, Sonya Krutikova
Published in: IFS Working Paper W19/23, 2019
Publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies

Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Costas Meghir
Published in: NBER Working Paper 29362, 2021
Publisher: National Bureau of Research (NBER)
DOI: 10.3386/w29362

Medium run of an early years intervention in Cuttack, Orisha

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Lina Cardona Sosa, Michele Giannola, Costas Meghir, Sally Grantham-McGregor
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Not yet published

Subjective Parental Beliefs. Their Measurement and Role

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Flavio Cunha, Pamela Jervis
Published in: Working Paper 26516, Issue National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2019
Publisher: NBER

Estimating the production function for human capital: results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir, Marta Rubio-Codina
Published in: IFS Working Paper W20/3, 2020
Publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies

Are the impacts of a stimulation intervention mediated by genetic factors?

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Gabriella Conti, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Not yet published

The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills: Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence

Author(s): Orazio Attanasio, Aureo de Paula, Alessandro Toppeta
Published in: NBER Working Paper 27823, 2020
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBE)
DOI: 10.3386/w27823