Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? Economics of Education Review, , .

By Katherine A. Magnuson, Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel. 2007

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Giving children a better start: Preschool attendance and school-age profiles (2006, positive): “Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Magnuson et al. (2005) find that pre-primary education in the US is associated with higher reading and mathematics skills at primary school entry, but that these effects dissipate by the end of first grade.”
Children's school readiness skills across the pre-K year: Associations with teacher-student interactions, teacher practices, and exposure to academic content (2020, neutral): “…federal Head Start program and reported widely varying impacts across grantees, with many showing no impact and some showing large effects; while Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel (2007) reported convergence for academic outcomes by the end of first grade in their analysis of the Early Childhood…”
Human Capital Development before Age Five. NBER Working Paper No. 15827. (2010, neutral): “For example in Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel (2007), the preschool children had systematically higher incomes than those who attended Head Start.”
Evaluating the Madrasa preschool programme in East Africa: a quasi‐experimental study (2008, neutral): “…research in the developed world Studies on the benefits of preschool programmes on children’s development have mostly been carried out in the USA and Europe (Marjanovi[caron] Umek et al. 2007; Spiess, Buchel, and Wagner 2003; Schweinhart 2001; Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel 2007; Ramey et al. 2000).”
How is family income related to investments in children’s learning? (2011, neutral): “7 (Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel, 2007; Lubieneski and Lubienski, 2006).2 A large concern with all of these research areas is the ability to attribute causal interpretations to these associations, as few studies have used rigorous methods that adequately account for the potential for omitted…”
Canadian evidence on ten years of universal preschool policies: The good and the bad (2015, positive): “…aged 3 to 5, several studies on the effect of preschool programs find significant positive effects on cognitive outcomes (letter-word identification, spelling and applied problems) and measures of school readiness (Gormley and Gayer, 2005; Gormley et al., 2005; Magnuson et al., 2007, 2004).”
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation (2005, neutral): “Brooks-Gunn et al. (1992), Magnuson et al. (2004a, 2004b), and Gormley et al. (2004) Þnd higher effects for the disadvantaged population.”
Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start (2012, neutral): “3There exist a few studies in the literature examining the long term impact of universal pre-school (Cascio, 2009, Magnuson et al, 2007, Berlinski et al, 2008, 2009, Havnes and Mogstad, 2011).”