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 …

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 …

relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …

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. …

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

childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. …