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The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2016

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2009

This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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Inference with Imperfect Randomization : The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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PLUS or Minus? : The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices

Black, Sandra E.; Turner, Lesley J.; Denning, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …

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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Biroli, Pietro - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0-3) and preschool (ages...

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31

Gertler, Paul J.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor … original sample is 127 stunted children between 9 and 24 months old. Our study is able to track and interview 75% of the … statistically significant effects on income and schooling; the treatment group had 43% higher hourly wages and 37% higher earnings …

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