TY  - JOUR
AB  - Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3 and 5, with a focus on math and phonics skills. Children gain 0.52 and 0.51 standard deviations relative to the control group on math and phonics tests, respectively (p<0.001). A year later effects persist, but math gains dissipate to 0.15 (p=0.06) and phonics to 0.13 (p=0.12). Effects appear to be mediated largely through instructional support by parents and not other parent investment mechanisms, such as more positive parent-child interactions or additional time spent on education at home beyond the intervention. Our results show that parents can be effective conduits of educational instruction even in low-resource settings.
AU  - Angrist, Noam
AU  - Kabay, Sarah
AU  - Karlan, Dean
AU  - Lau, Lincoln
AU  - Wong, Kevin
PY  - 2024
ST  - Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines
TI  - Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1044
ER  -