Invest in the Very Young.

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The effectiveness of early head start for 3-year-old children and their parents: lessons for policy and programs. (2005, background): “…development and parenting might be expected to accumulate across outcomes, as would be consistent with the dynamic reciprocity model of human capital in which changes in children and parents each potentially affect the slope of the children’s developmental trajectories (Heckman, 2000).”
The Response to Intervention (RTI) Approach in Early Childhood (2011, background): “Early learning begets later learning and early success breeds later success” (Heckman, 2000, p. 3).”
Quality matters: early childhood education policy in Hong Kong (2009, background): “…(for example, US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development & Early Child Care Research Network [NICHHD ECCRN], 2005) and research that has drawn attention to the larger economic returns of government investment in early childhood compared to adulthood (Heckman, 2004; Lynch, 2004).”