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WORKING PAPERS
November 29, 2022
We study whether providing affordable childcare improves women's economic empowerment and child development, using data from a sample of 1,990 women participating in a public works program in Burkina Faso. Out of 36 urban work sites, 18 were randomly selected to receive community-based childcare cen...
Blog Post
November 29, 2022
Research and policymaking relating to childcare often occurs in siloes and because of this, few studies connect the vision of caring for children with the vision of encouraging women’s employment and economic wellbeing. In a new paper, we bridge this gap to examine whether community-based childcare...
Blog Post
November 21, 2022
In Brazil, the number of children in daycare programs is increasing rapidly. Studies show that publicly provided daycare can benefit children’s nutrition and yield short-term benefits to children’s cognitive development, without having adverse impacts on children’s behavioral development. It can als...
Blog Post
November 01, 2022
Last month, we published a blog making the case for quality childcare as a “best buy” investment: one that can increase labor force participation, productivity, and income among workers, as well as improve broader well-being among children, caregivers, and communities. Our first blog summarized find...
Blog Post
October 19, 2022
Around the world, the state of refugee integration policy is dire. Fortunately, this is changing. Here are three broad lessons I personally take from the new, rigorous evidence presented at the symposium on refugee integration, at the University of California Davis Global Migration Center.
Blog Post
September 30, 2022
Governments still need to be convinced to prioritize childcare. Context-specific data on ROI canna help with this. CGD and the World Bank’s Early Learning Partnership convened a series of technical workshops aimed at informing the approach of the newly launched World Bank Group (WBG) Invest in Child...
Blog Post
September 29, 2022
With a little more than two years left in the current administration’s term, now is the time to lay the foundation for a robust infrastructure so that US leadership translates into helping more refugees in the decades to come. If properly resourced and supported, the Resettlement Diplomacy Network c...
CGD NOTES
September 29, 2022
This note provides actionable advice on measurement for project teams working on digital government-to-person projects, as well as practitioners and researchers working on cash transfer payments and financial inclusion more broadly. It provides short measures focused on key outcomes related to women...