Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (email: )
2. The World Bank (email: )
3. Department of Economics, University of Nebraska (email: )
Abstract
This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted administrative data. Using the county roll-out of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry, we find that Head Start generated large increases in adult human capital and economic self-sufficiency, including a 0. 65-year increase in schooling, a 2.7 percent increase in high school completion, an 8.5 percent increase in college enrollment, and a 39 percent increase in college completion. These estimates imply sizable, long-term returns to investments in means-tested, public preschool programs. (JEL I21, I26, I28, I38, J24)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
Economics and Econometrics
Cited by
42 articles.
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