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Promoting parent-child relationships and preventing violence via home-visiting: a pre-post cluster randomised trial among Rwandan families linked to social protection programmes by Betancourt, Theresa S, Jensen, Sarah K G, Barnhart, Dale A, Brennan, Robert T, Murray, Shauna M, Yousafzai, Aisha K, Farrar, Jordan, Godfroid, Kalisa, Bazubagira, Stephanie M, Rawlings, Laura B, Wilson, Briana, Sezibera, Vincent, Kamurase, Alex

“…Sugira Muryango is a father-engaged early child development and violence-prevention home-visiting programme delivered by trained lay workers. This…”
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Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda by Jensen, Sarah KG, Placencio-Castro, Matias, Murray, Shauna M, Brennan, Robert T, Goshev, Simo, Farrar, Jordan, Yousafzai, Aisha, Rawlings, Laura B, Wilson, Briana, Habyarimana, Emmanuel, Sezibera, Vincent, Betancourt, Theresa S

“…IntroductionFamilies living in extreme poverty require interventions to support early-childhood development (ECD) due to broad risks. This longitudinal cluster…”
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Measuring the cost-effectiveness of a home-visiting intervention to promote early child development among rural families linked to the Rwandan social protection system by Desmond, Chris, Watt, Kathryn G., Jensen, Sarah K. G., Simmons, Erik, Murray, Shauna M., Farrar, Jordan, Placencio-Castro, Matias, Sezibera, Vincent, Rawlings, Laura B., Wilson, Briana, Betancourt, Theresa S.

“…Early childhood development (ECD) programmes are heralded as a way to improve children’s health and educational outcomes. However, few studies in developing…”
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Do Behavioral Interventions Enhance the Effects of Cash on Early Childhood Development and Its Determinants? Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Madagascar by Datta, Saugato, Martin, Joshua, MacLeod, Catherine, Rawlings, Laura B., Vermehren, Andrea

“…There is growing interest in how best to leverage cash transfers to foster positive impact on children in beneficiary households. We evaluate the effects of…”
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Lay-worker Delivered Home Visiting Promotes Early Childhood Development and Reduces Violence in Rwanda: A Randomized Pilot by Barnhart, Dale A., Farrar, Jordan, Murray, Shauna M., Brennan, Robert T., Antonaccio, Cara M., Sezibera, Vincent, Ingabire, Charles, Godfroid, Kalisa, Bazubagira, Stephanie, Uwimana, Odette, Kamurase, Alex, Wilson, Briana, Rawlings, Laura B., Yousafzai, Aisha, Betancourt, Theresa S.

“…Early child development (ECD) programs are increasingly combined with targeted cash transfers for poor households to break intergenerational poverty. However,…”
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The Impact and Targeting of Social Infrastructure Investments: Lessons from the Nicaraguan Social Fund by Pradhan, Menno, Rawlings, Laura B.

“…The benefit incidence and impact of projects financed by the Nicaraguan Emergency Social Investment Fund are investigated using a sample of beneficiaries, a…”
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Combining cash transfers and parenting programs: Operational design considerations by Arriagada, Ana Maria, Rawlings, Laura B, Trias, Julieta, Zumaeta-Aurazo, Melissa

“…Over 250 million children under five in the developing world risk not reaching their full development potential because of deficient investments in nutrition,…”
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Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs by Rawlings, Laura B., Rubio, Gloria M.

“…Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior,…”
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An Impact Evaluation of Education, Health, and Water Supply Investments by the Bolivian Social Investment Fund by Newman, John, Pradhan, Menno, Rawlings, Laura B., Ridder, Geert, Coa, Ramiro, Evia, Jose Luis

“…This article reviews the results of an impact evaluation of small‐scale rural infrastructure projects in health, water, and education financed by the Bolivian…”
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Evaluating Social Funds: A Cross-Country Analysis of Community Investments by Sherburne-Benz, Lynne, Rawlings, Laura B, van Domelen, Julie

“…Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. A departure from traditional…”
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A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America's Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes by Rawlings, Laura B.

“…Conditional cash transfers are a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance that represents an innovative and increasingly popular channel…”
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The Impact and Targeting of Social Infrastructure Investments by Pradhan, Menno, Rawlings, Laura B

“…The benefit incidence and impact of projects financed by the Nicaraguan Emergency Social Investment Fund are investigated using a sample of beneficiaries, a…”
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An Introduction by Schady, Norbert R, Rawlings, Laura B

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An Introduction by Rawlings, Laura B., Schady, Norbert R.

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An Introduction by Laura B. Rawlings, Schady, Norbert R.

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An impact evaluation, health, and water supply investments by the Bolivian social investment fund by Newman, John, Pradhan, Menno, Rawlings, Laura B, Ridder, Geert

“…This article reviews the results of an impact evaluation of small-scale rural infrastructure projects in health, water, and education financed by the Bolivian…”
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