기사
Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start /
- 개인저자
- Deming, David
- 수록페이지
- 111-134 p.
- 발행일자
- 2009.07.10
- 출판사
- American Economic Association
초록
[영문]AbstractThis 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 standard deviations on a summary index of young adult outcomes. 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 “fade-out” of test score gains