The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
By J. García, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, M. Prados. Social Science Research Network, 2016
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This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater monetized benefits for males. Lifetime returns are estimated by pooling multiple data sets using testable economic models. The overall rate of return is 13.7% per annum, and the benefit/cost ratio is 7.3. These estimates are robust to numerous sensitivity analyses.
Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Safety Research
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- Presidential Address: “A Thousand Petty Fortresses”: Administrative Burden in U.S. Immigration Policies and Its Consequences (2018, background): “One of the most vocal researchers on the importance of “investing as early as possible, from birth through age five, in disadvantaged families” is Nobel Laureate James Heckman, whose research with colleagues suggests that even when starting at age three or four years, long-term benefits are likely t”
- Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit* (2019, unknown): “Given the ubiquity of challenging tasks and frequent performance feedback encountered in educational and employment settings, and the central question of how to motivate 1Well-known examples of early childhood and elementary school programs include the Perry Preschool program (Heckman et al., 2010, ”