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disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group … across the life cycle, which translates into better family environments for the second generation leading to positive … that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …
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relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …
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education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original … participants and their children generate substantial benefits. Access to life-cycle data enables us to evaluate the accuracy of …
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from high-quality demonstration programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed … Start has beneficial effects on disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit … disadvantaged children. …
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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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sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 ….43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …
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child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … disadvantaged children, in particular as a consequence of unfavorable preschool characteristics. …
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This paper uses register based data covering the entire population of Danish children enrolled in preschool in 2006 … are larger for boys who did not have access to male teachers previously and among children with less readily access to …
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