This paper provides new evidence on the long-term benefits of Head Start using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I compare siblings who differ in their participation in the program, controlling for a variety of pre-treatment covariates. I estimate that Head Start participants gain 0.23...

Using the 1988 earthquake in Nepal as a natural experiment, we examine the long-term repercussions of a large exogenous physical shock on human capital accumulation. We exploit the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of ground tremors to evaluate the long-term impact of earthquake on...