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Author: Lukes, Dylan J.
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Lukes, Dylan J. |
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Select Works on the Economics of Education Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Education, Harvard University, 2022 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Educational Attainment; Head Start; Skill Formation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation comprises three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay studies the short and long-run effects of Head Start, a federally funded early childhood education program that targets children from low-income families. This research replicates and extends previous evaluations of Head Start's impact on life cycle skill formation. My co-authors and I find primarily negative impacts of Head Start for more recent birth cohorts and null impacts of Head Start on school-age and early adulthood outcomes for all birth cohorts. Unpacking these results, we show that factors unrelated to Head Start, such as the mother's age at their child's birth, likely play an important role in mediating Head Start impacts across time. |
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Lukes, Dylan J. Select Works on the Economics of Education. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Education, Harvard University, 2022. |
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Pages, Remy Lukes, Dylan J. Bailey, Drew H. Duncan, Greg J. |
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Elusive Longer-Run Impacts of Head Start: Replications Within and Across Cohorts Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis published online (24 August 2020): DOI: 10.3102/0162373720948884. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0162373720948884 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): Earnings; Head Start; Life Course; Skill Formation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using an additional decade of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults (CNLSY), this study replicated and extended Deming's evaluation of Head Start's life cycle skill formation impacts in three ways. Extending the measurement interval for Deming's adulthood outcomes, we found no statistically significant impacts on earnings and mixed evidence of impacts on other adult outcomes. Applying Deming's sibling comparison framework to more recent birth cohorts born to CNLSY mothers revealed mostly negative Head Start impacts. Combining all cohorts showed generally null impacts on school-age and early adulthood outcomes. |
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Pages, Remy, Dylan J. Lukes, Drew H. Bailey and Greg J. Duncan. "Elusive Longer-Run Impacts of Head Start: Replications Within and Across Cohorts." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis published online (24 August 2020): DOI: 10.3102/0162373720948884.
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