Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement trajectories suggests that such a program offered to low-income children would essentially eliminate the income-based gap at age three and between a third and three-quarters of the age-five and age-eight gaps.
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2012-12
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Authors: | Duncan, Greg J. ; Sojourner, Aaron J. |
Institutions: | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Subject: | government policy | early childhood | education | skill formation | human capital |
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freely available
Extent: | application/pdf |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (4), 945-986. Number 7087 58 pages |
Classification: | I2 - Education ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; I3 - Welfare and Poverty |
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