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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education : Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers

García, Jorge Luis; Bennhoff, Frederik; Ermini Leaf, Duncan - 2023

We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...

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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2014

Beckerian framework of time allocation with a view toward establishing whether parental childcare appears to be more akin to …

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Early Childhood Education

Elango, Sneha - 2015

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Ben - 2014

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long...

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The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education

Bassok, Daphna - 2017

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on program quality and create both reputational and...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully...

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Inference with Imperfect Randomization : The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments : Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...

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