Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

By Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja. Social Science Research Network, 2012

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This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to identify the effect of Head Start for the set of individuals in the neighborhoods of multiple discontinuities, which vary with family size, state and year (as opposed to a smaller set of individuals neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health problems and obesity of male children at ages 12 and 13. It also lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and reduces engagement in criminal activities for young adults.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start (2019, unknown): “…contribute to a growing body of work investigating the long-term effects of Head Start using quasi-experimental methods (Ludwig and Miller 2007; Carneiro and Ginja 2014; Thompson 2018; Bauer and Schanzenbach 2016; Johnson and Jackson 2019; Bailey, Sun, and Timpe 2021; Pages et al. 2020; Barr…”
Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start (2016, methodology): “As in our analysis of optimal program scale, equation (11) shows that it is not necessary to separately identify the “subMTEs” that compose MTEh to determine the optimal value of f .”
The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston (2021, unknown): “…research designs (Garces, Thomas, and Currie 2002; Gormley et al. 2005; Ludwig and Miller 2007; Fitzpatrick 2008; Wong et al. 2008; Deming 2009; Carneiro and Ginja 2014; Thompson 2018; Johnson and Jackson 2019; De Haan and Leuven 2020; Pages et al. 2020; Bailey, Timpe, and Sun 2021; Cascio…”
Use of Quasi-Experimental Research Designs in Education Research: Growth, Promise, and Challenges (2020, methodology): “Studies that use family-fixed effects find that participation in ECE programs improves college attendance and completion, improves health, and reduces criminal justice involvement (Carneiro & Ginja, 2014; Deming, 2009; Garces et al., 2002).”
No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes (2011, background): “Sources: Administrative data for 1972–1996. Data for 1960–1972 from the Norwegian Ministry of Administration and Consumer Affairs (1972), Table II.”