Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start

By Patrick M. Kline, Christopher R. Walters. 2016

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The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (2016, positive): “3See, e.g., Kline and Walters (2016) and Weiland and Yoshikawa (2013).”
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, neutral): “9For example, Kline and Walters (2014) estimate a semi-parametric selection model to learn about the effects of Head Start as compared to no preschool or competing preschool programs.”
Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance (2018, positive): “…know of that use an MTE framework to estimate heterogeneity in returns to early child care attendance with respect to unobserved characteristics are Kline and Walters (2016) and 7 Using a similar approach, Kottelenberg and Lehrer (2017) find substantial heterogeneity in distributional effects for…”
The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston (2021, neutral): “…and Ramey 1994; Schweinhart et al. 2005) or are limited to short-term outcomes (Puma et al. 2010; Puma, Bell, and Heid 2012; Bitler, Hoynes, and Domina 2014; Bloom and Weiland 2015; Walters 2015; Feller et al. 2016; Kline and Walters 2016; Lipsey, Farran, and Durkin 2018; Weiland et al. 2019).”
Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, neutral): “Aizer and Cunha (2014), Gelber and Isen (2013), and Kline and Walters (2016) examine the U.S. Head Start program, a publicly funded program that originally served 3 to 5 year old children, but has increasingly served younger children as well.”
Interpreting Effect Sizes of Education Interventions (2020, result): “This weaker treatment-control contrast is one reason why studies find larger effect sizes for Perry Preschool than for Head Start (Kline & Walters, 2016).”
Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, result): “This is consistent with recent studies of selection into early-childhood programs and charter schools, which also find negative selection on test score match effects (Cornelissen et al., 2016; Kline and Walters, 2016; Walters, 2018).”
Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type (2016, methodology): “Second, this pattern of impact variation broadly holds across outcome quantiles [Bitler, Hoynes and Domina (2014)] 2These results are corroborated in independent work by Kline and Walters (2016), who find the same general pattern using a structural model.”
Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions (2021, neutral): “3Our analysis also relates to issues with interpreting multiple-treatment IV estimates (Behaghel et al., 2013; Kirkeboen et al., 2016; Kline & Walters, 2016; Hull, 2018c; Lee & Salanié, 2018; Bhuller & Sigstad, 2022). the non-linear dependence across multiple dependent treatments and controls.”
Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation (2018, background): “…variables (and other program evaluation) settings was introduced by Björklund and Moffitt (1987), and later devel- oped and popularized by Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2005) and Heckman et al. (2006), and more recently studied by Kline and Walters (2016) and Brinch et al. (2017), among others.”
Social Experiments in the Labor Market (2016, neutral): “…2009); hidden treatments (e.g., Kline and Walters 2014, Feller, Grindal, Miratrix, and Page 2014, Pinto 2015); heterogenous treatment effects (e.g., Kline and Walters 2014, Heckman and Vytlacil 2005); and multiple treatments and mechanisms (e.g., Card and Hyslop 2005, Schmieder, von Wachter, and…”
The Demand for Effective Charter Schools (2018, background): “Recent studies of early childhood education programs also find negative selection on treatment effects (Cornelissen et al., 2016; Kline and Walters, 2016).”