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doi
10.1596/978-1-4648-0872-2
handle
10986/24737

Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills : A Systematic Review of Program Evidence

Flag for IGO World Bank on August 1st 2016
Valerio, Alexandria, Sánchez Puerta, Maria Laura and Gutiérrez Bernal, Marcela
This book represents a systematic review of the documented impacts of programs aimed at fostering socio-emotional skills in developed and developing countries. It uses a life-cycle approach to organize the findings from rigorous evaluations of more than 80 programs. This includes programs for toddlers and young children before primary school, programs for students enrolled in formal education, and programs targeted at the out-of-school population. The book develops a conceptual framework that helps to identify the program characteristics and participants’ profiles associated with a range of program outcomes. These include health-related, behavioral, academic or cognitive, and economic-related outcomes. The review finds that few of the programs studied focus exclusively on the development of socio-emotional skills. In fact, most efforts to develop socio-emotional skills are embedded within innovative education and training curricula, as well as pedagogical and classroom practices. Evidence shows that prog...

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1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1 Administration for Community Living 1 U.S. Department of Education 1 University of Virginia 1 Institute of Education Sciences 1 European Research Council 1 NICHD NIH HHS 2 OpenAlex NIH DOIs (April 2024) 6 NIH (Special project, May 2022) 4 National Institutes of Health 2 Health Resources and Services Administration 2 National Institute on Drug Abuse 2 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 1 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation 4 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship 3 National Institute of Mental Health 2 William T. Grant Foundation 2 US Department of Education 1 Center for Substance Abuse Prevention 1 Department of Education 2 National Institute of General Medical Sciences 1 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 1 Department for Education, UK Government 1 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 4 ESRC 4 ESRC January 2022

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Markus Goldstein at London School of Economics and Political Science
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David S. Loughran at RAND Corporation
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Jochen Kluve at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Jochen Kluve at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Peter R. Mueser at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Jochen Kluve at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Andrea Weber at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Michael Fertig at Institute for the Study of Labor
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David Card at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Marek Góra at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Kenneth R. Troske at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Munshi Sulaiman at London School of Economics and Political Science
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Selim Gulesci at London School of Economics and Political Science
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Robin Burgess at London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lynn A. Karoly at RAND Corporation
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