The EDI was chosen as one measure to determine the impact the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had on early achievement gaps. The EDI was used along with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, tests of executive function, drawing tasks, expressive and receptive language tasks, and demonstrations of child skills to measure child development in 3000 villages in Indonesia. The results of the study were published in the Journal of Development Effectiveness by Haeil Jung and Amer Hasan.
