higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first … disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group … that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have …

. 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 …

"We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …