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Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start

Author(s) -

David Deming

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.1.3.111

Subject(s) - head start , disadvantaged , early childhood intervention , quartile , early head start , psychology , intervention (counseling) , national longitudinal surveys , developmental psychology , test (biology) , early childhood , test score , demography , medicine , demographic economics , economics , confidence interval , standardized test , economic growth , sociology , paleontology , mathematics education , psychiatry , biology

This paper provides new evidence on the long-term benefits of Head Start using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I compare siblings who differ in their participation in the program, controlling for a variety of pre-treatment covariates. I estimate that Head Start participants gain 0.23 standard deviations on a summary index of young adult outcomes. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite "fadeout" of test score gains. (JEL H52, J13, I28, I38)

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