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Our paper provides some of the first evidence on the effect of the Head Start funding expansions on program inputs. We take advantage of the county-year variation in funding increases that were implemented due to a number of legislated policy changes in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s....
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-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent …
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. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …
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"Child care policy in Korea revolves around financial support for all households with young children. However, the … subsidies to place their children in child care centers. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the child care policy and … care subsidy to households with children up to aged 2 contributed to an increase in the use of child care centers and …
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This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental data using economic models to forecast its life-cycle benefits. Our baseline estimate of the...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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