This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood … individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

model specifications that controlled for a variety of observed characteristics of the child and his or her mother, and time …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …