Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly … in lifetime earnings. …

projected earnings benefits for program participants who differ by income and by program dosage. The dollar effects and benefit … earnings benefits, actual benefit-cost ratios are likely higher, especially for disadvantaged children. …This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These …

subsequent earnings and employment outcomes among participants. In contrast, job placements with direct-hire employers … substantially raise earnings and employment over a seven quarter follow-up period. …

Governments in every developed industrial economy administer programs that partially replace the earnings of workers … Michigan: Unemployment Insurance (UI), which partially replaces lost earnings following loss of a job; Workers' Compensation … (WC), which pays for medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and lost earnings following a work-related injury or …

and preschool from infancy to age five; 3) the Nurse Family Partnership, which provides low-income first-time mothers with … Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care …. The book considers the main benefit of state economic development to be the resulting increase in earnings of the original …

and preschool from infancy to age five; 3) the Nurse Family Partnership, which provides low-income first-time mothers with … with family income, and the political feasibility of targeted versus universal programs. … Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care …

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3 …-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during …-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for …