Professor Orazio Attanasio

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using the 1970 British Cohort Study in the UK.

Globally, preschool enrollment has surged, but its quality is often poor. We evaluate strategies to improve quality of public preschools in Colombia.

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers.

In this article, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood development.

In this paper, we assess a cluster-RCT intervention to enhance child stimulation in Colombia's FAMI parenting program.

We present the results of a randomised experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting programme delivered by cadres in China’s Family Planning Commission (FPC)—the former enforcers of the one-child policy.

In an open-label cluster-randomized control trial, we compared the effectiveness of weekly home visits and weekly mother-child group sessions.

This paper examines the social networks of young married women in rural Odisha, India.

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1–12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0–5 who are at risk of developmental deficits.

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart.

This article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on household expenditure on non-durables.

This report presents the main findings of the project “Improving early childhood development in rural Ghana through scalable low-cost community-run play schemes''.

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart.

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disavantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline.

In this paper, we look at the evolution of consumption and wage inequality from 1980 to 2016 in the US.

Using a cluster randomised controlled trial, we evaluated a psychosocial stimulation intervention, comprising weekly home visits for 18 months, in urban slums of Cuttack, Odisha, India.

Global access to preschool has increased dramatically yet preschool quality is often poor.

Global access to preschool has increased dramatically yet preschool quality is often poor. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate two approaches to improving the quality of Colombian preschools.

We have established a new partnership between academics, local government and early years practitioners to develop, implement and evaluate a home-visiting programme for parents with very young children in England. In this feasibility study, we research local priorities and existing services to evaluate the need for a new early childhood intervention in England.

Many children in developing countries grow up in unstimulating environments, leading to deficiencies in early years’ developmental outcomes, particularly cognition and language. Interventions to improve parenting in the first 3 years of life have a clear impact on these outcomes, but the sustainability of effects is mixed, particularly for scalable interventions. There is little evidence of the effect of following-up an early life intervention with another one immediately afterwards. The objective of this study is to help fill this gap.