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 …

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 …

schools from kindergarten to third grade. This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking the experimental data … to administrative records. We first demonstrate that kindergarten test scores are highly correlated with outcomes such as …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K), our results indicate that an increase …

significant when measured at the end of kindergarten or first grade. Assessments that Head Start is ineffective based on the NHSIS … results are in our view premature, given our currently limited understanding of how and why early childhood education improves …

there has been little empirical evidence, particularly in the education sector, on whether government intervention crowds …