Showing 1 - 10 of 2,922
relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326424
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583684
disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group … that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have … higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593048
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664515
beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595977
-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339672
childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647668
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193880
) intervention that targeted children aged 4 living in socially mixed neighborhoods of the city of Paris. We selected a large, random … practices. We measured SBR frequency and children's vocabulary before and after this intervention, among treated and control … children. The intervention had a large effect on SBR frequency. At the pre-test, SBR on a daily basis involved 41.2% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248941
Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715728