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This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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education and home visits to disadvantaged children during their preschool years. It was evaluated by the method of random …
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(PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favoring boys, although …
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …
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pioneering high-quality early childhood education program implemented before Head Start that targeted disadvantaged African … education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original …
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This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early … impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating population differences in outcomes by gender. For many outcomes, boys … phenomenon is not found for girls. We investigate the sources of the gender differentials in impacts. …
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This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental data using economic models to forecast its life-cycle benefits. Our baseline estimate of the...
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