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 … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

on issues involving children's education and discipline and increase parental inputs into their children's development …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

reviews a large body of empirical work investigating whether these programs make a difference for children's development, and … life outcomes. This suggests that early childhood programs might play a significant role in helping children realize their … childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

rolled out nationwide and provides additional resources for materials and new staff, did not benefit children's development …, improved the quality of teaching and raised children's cognition, language and school readiness …

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

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low …-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond … programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed costs, even accounting for the … disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit disadvantaged children …