This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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

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

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …

. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … outcomes, minority parents and children have more pessimistic expectations about child schooling relative to white children and … their parents when their children are young. At later ages, expectations are more uniform across racial and ethnic groups …