retention and compensation in the Early Care and Education workforce by merging datasets from three different government … agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to compare turnover and pay in Early Care and Education with those in other …

We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low …

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently …

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

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