robust evaluation methodology and administrative education data covering 15 cohorts of children, we measure the impact of …

. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …

, to quantify variation in effects of Head Start during 2002-2003 on children’s cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes …-eligible children; (3) Head Start produced a striking pattern of subgroup effects that indicates it substantially compensated dual … language learners and Spanish-speaking children with low pretest scores (two highly overlapping groups) for their limited prior …

Bengal in 2013 on children's early enrolment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting … unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). By utilizing a quasi-experimental study design …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …