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1. Deming, David
Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development Evidence from Head Start
Working Paper, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2009
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Health; Children, Preschool; Educational Attainment; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Head Start; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Variables, Independent - Covariate

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Also presented at the 2008 National Head Start Research Conference and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meetings.

This paper provides new evidence on the long-term benefits of Head Start using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I compare siblings who differ in their participation in the program, controlling for a variety of pre-treatment covariates. I estimate that Head Start participants gain 0.23 standard deviations on a summary index of young adult outcomes. This closes one third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite "fade out" of test score gains. (JEL I18, I28, I38)

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Deming, David. "Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development Evidence from Head Start." Working Paper, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2009.