Poor educational attainment relative to non-Latinos is a persistent problem for Latino children. This paper examines the capacity of the Head Start program to affect test scores and schooling achievement among these children. Large positive effects are found on all the measures we examine. On...

This paper examines the long-term effects of early test scores using data from the British National Child Development Survey. We show that test scores measured as early as age 7 have significant effects on future educational and labor market outcomes. For example, men and women in the lowest...

Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show that" black children who...