The Effect of Class Size in Grades K-3 on Adult Earnings, Employment, and Disability Status: Evidence from a Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Ty Wilde,
Jeremy D. Finn,
Gretchen Johnson,
Peter Muennig
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1548-6869
pISSN - 1049-2089
DOI - 10.1353/hpu.2011.0148
Subject(s) - earnings , graduation (instrument) , psychological intervention , randomized controlled trial , educational attainment , psychology , demography , medicine , health and retirement study , intervention (counseling) , gerontology , demographic economics , economics , psychiatry , sociology , geometry , mathematics , accounting , surgery , economic growth
Early education interventions have been forwarded as a means for reducing social disparities in income and health in adulthood. We explore whether a successful early education intervention, which occurred between 1985 and 1989, improved the employment rates, earnings and health of blacks relative to whites through 2008.
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