This short paper estimates the state and local fiscal benefits of the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program. NFP provides nurse home visiting services to low-income first-time mothers. In addition to social benefits, NFP provides state and local fiscal benefits by reducing costs of social...

This chapter is a draft of Chapter 7 of a planned book, 'Preschool and Jobs: Human Development as Economic Development, and Vice Versa.' This book analyzes early childhood programs’ effects on regional economic development. Four early childhood programs are considered: 1) universally...

This paper provides new information on what proportion of individuals spend their adult work lives in their childhood metropolitan area or state. I also examine how this proportion varies across different demographic groups, and with the size and growth rate of the metropolitan area. I find that...