Table 5.

Features and Available Skill Measures for Home-Visiting Programs Patterned after Jamaica

	ChinaReach	China	Colombia	India
Panel a. Features
Setting	Villages in Huachi County of Gansu, China	Villages Shaanxi, China	Semi-urban municipalities in central Colombia	Urban disadvantaged neighborhoods in Cuttack County of Odisha, India
Year of program start	2015	2014	2010	2013
Annual cost per child participant	602 (2021 USD)	Not available	380 (2021 USD)	175 (2021 USD)
Sample at baseline	852 control; 715 treatment	296 control; 212 treatment	626 control; 635 treatment	212 control; 209 treatment
Socioeconomic characteristics of participants	Generally disadvantaged; > 70% of household participants living in cave dwelling	Generally disadvantaged; ∼26% participant households qualified for minimum-living standards social program	Eligible for a social programs targeting households belonging to the poorest 20% in the population	Generally disadvantaged; ∼50% of participant households below the poverty line
Child age at start of program	0 to 20 months	18 to 30 months	12 to 24 months	10 to 20 months
Program duration	∼22 months	6 months	18 months	18 months
Education of home visitors	10 years (average)	Most completed at least community college; 29% completed college	8.5 years (average)	26% did not have high-school; 74% had at least high-school
Experience required for home visitors	None	None	None	None
Education of mothers at baseline	10 years (average)	∼27% had less than 9 years of education; ∼73% had more than 9 years of education or more	7.5 years (average)	6.7 years control (average); 8.1 years treatment (average)
Frequency of home visits	Weekly; one-hour per session	Weekly; one-hour per session	Weekly; one-hour per session	Weekly; one-hour per session
Panel b. Home-Environment Measures
Child age at measurement	2 to 3.5	2 to 3.5	2.5 to 3.5	1.5 to 3
Measures available	HOME inventory	Items similar to those observed in the HOME inventory	Items similar to those observed in the HOME inventory, classified as either time or material resources	Items similar to those observed in the HOME inventory
Panel c. Very Early-Life Skill Measures
Child age at measurement	2 to 3.5	2 to 3.5	2.5 to 3.5	1.5 to 3
Measures available	Cognitive: Denver Developmental Screening Test (language and cognition sections). Non-cognitive: Denver Developmental Screening Test (socio-emotional section)	Cognitive: Bayley Mental Developmental Index (cognitive section) for cohort 1; Griffith Mental Development Scale (performance scale) for cohort 2. Non-cognitive: ASQ social problems inventory for both cohorts	Cognitive: Bayley Mental Developmental Index (cognitive section). Non-cognitive: IQQ and ECBQ inventories	Cognitive: Bayley Mental Developmental Index (cognitive section). Non-Cognitive: not available

Sources: Heckman et al. (2020) for ChinaReach. Sylvia et al. (2021) for China. Attanasio et al. (2020) for Colombia. Andrew et al. (2020) for India.