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

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

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The Gift of Moving : Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock

Nakamura, Emi - 2016

We exploit a volcanic “experiment" to study the costs and benefits of geographic mobility. We show that moving costs (broadly defined) are very large and labor therefore does not flow to locations where it earns the highest returns. In our experiment, a third of the houses in a town were...

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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?

Card, David E. - 2021

the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the … immigrants is a key yardstick. By this metric, post-1965 immigrants are doing reasonably well: second generation sons and …

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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

Figlio, David N. - 2016

secure better educational opportunities for their children. A larger fraction of immigrants speaking the same language in the …

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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...

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The Effects of Texas's Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance

Andrews, Rodney - 2016

's targeted pre-Kindergarten (pre-K), affects scores on math and reading achievement tests, the likelihood of being retained in …

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The School-Entry-Age Rule Affects Redshirting Patterns and Resulting Disparities in Achievement

Cook, Philip J. - 2018

Since, other things equal, older children do better in school, the extent and pattern of delayed entry affects observed patterns in academic performance. This paper provides three new sets of relevant findings, utilizing comprehensive data on birth cohorts of children who enrolled in first grade...

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Too Young to Leave the Nest : The Effects of School Starting Age

Black, Sandra E. - 2010

Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to examine the role of school starting age on longer-run...

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The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2017

This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor...

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Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

Johnson, Rucker - 2017

We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in pre-school (Head Start) spending and...

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