Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency.
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Journal
The American economic review
ISSN: 0002-8282
Titre abrégé: Am Econ Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 14810500R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
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2022
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15
4
2022
medline:
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2022
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ppublish
Résumé
This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted administrative data. Using the county rollout of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry, we find that Head Start generated large increases in adult human capital and economic self-sufficiency, including a 0.65-year increase in schooling, a 2.7 percent increase in high school completion, an 8.5 percent increase in college enrollment, and a 39 percent increase in college completion. These estimates imply sizable, long-term returns to investments in means-tested, public preschool programs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35418710
doi: 10.1257/aer.20181801
pmc: PMC9005064
mid: NIHMS1785620
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
3963-4001Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041022
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041028
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R03 HD066145
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : T32 AG000221
Pays : United States
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