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 …

retention and compensation in the Early Care and Education workforce by merging datasets from three different government … agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to compare turnover and pay in Early Care and Education with those in other …

education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …

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

Most European governments have universal, consolidated, education-based ECE programs that are available from early in … (Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) and the child care voucher program) targeted to low-income children. With a few …