A growing body of research shows that having an involved father enhances a child's well-being. This four-page issue brief, based on Mathematica's evaluation of the Early Head Start Fatherhood Demonstration, delineates lessons for policymakers and practitioners who are embarking on new efforts to...

Using data from a population survey of 261 Early Head Start programs and a father involvement demonstration of 21 programs, the authors examine the extent to which fathers participate in Early Head Start intervention programs for infants and toddlers. Fathers were present in the lives of a...

Finds that, a year or more after enrolling in the program, 2-year-olds perform significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, when compared with a randomly assigned control group. EHS families are also more likely to attend school or job...

Tells the story of program development in the early years, examining the nature and extent of implementation in key program areas and the quality of child development services for the 17 programs participating in the national evaluation. Reviews evolving program approaches, family engagement,...

Mathematica collected data on child care settings used by program and control group families when children were 14, 24, and 36 months of age. Findings demonstrate the important role programs played: Early Head Start families were receiving not only more child care but substantially more...

This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.