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 …

childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

In the 1960s and 1970s, many states introduced grants for school districts offering kindergarten programs. This paper … early education. I find that white children aged five after the typical state reform were less likely to be high school … receives most empirical support is that state funding for kindergarten crowded out participation in federally-funded early …

We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control …

program that embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of 1:1 instruction. Eligible kindergarten … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The …

We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low …

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …