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

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …