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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour

Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favoring boys, although there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits, above and beyond the effects of experimentally enhanced adult socioeconomic status. These results show the potential of early life interventions for promoting health.
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12420
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Open Access status: green
Funders: American Bar Foundation, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Resource Centre 2015-20, Research Network on the Determinants of Life Course Capabilities and Outcomes, Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Integrated Lifecycle Approach to the Development of Health & Other Capabilities, G6807676582, G8219231320, G8855219612, Synthesizing and Interpreting the Evidence on Early Interventions
OpenAlex ID: W2136126831
FWCI: 57.45
Cites: 127
Cited by: 213
Related to: 10