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Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Specially collected data on adults in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are used to provide evidence on the longer-term effects of Head Start, an early intervention program for poor preschool-age children. Whites who attended Head Start are, relative to their siblings who did not, significantly more likely to complete high school, attend college, and possibly have higher earnings in their early twenties. African-Americans who participated in Head Start are less likely to have been booked or charged with a crime. There is some evidence of positive spillovers from older Head Start children to their younger siblings.

Source: American Economic Review

DOI: 10.1257/00028280260344560

Authors: Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas, Janet Currie

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, National Bureau of Economic Research

Language: English

Topic: Early Childhood Education and Development

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3125025937

FWCI: 148.1

Cites: 7

Cited by: 969

Related to: 10