, completed one or two years in the program, and attended kindergarten the year after completing Head Start. Head Start children … make progress in important school readiness skills over the course of their time in Head Start and in the kindergarten year …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

Child care and early education subsidies are an important part of government efforts to increase economic independence … increasing economic independence and improving child outcomes. All child care and early education subsidies affect both work …

education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …