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Title: Participation in Project Head Start: Determinants and Possible Intermediate-Term Consequences
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Mott, Frank L. Quinlan, Stephen V. |
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Participation in Project Head Start: Determinants and Possible Intermediate-Term Consequences Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1992. Also: http://www.nlsinfo.org/usersvc/Child-Young-Adult/MottQuinlan1991-HeadStart.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Children; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; General Assessment; Head Start; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Racial Differences; Temperament This research uses data from the 1988 Merged Child-Mother File of the NLSY to present: (1) summary statistics on Head Start enrollment; (2) multivariate analyses examining the independent predictors of Head Start enrollment; and (3) multivariate analyses examining the extent to which enrollment in a Head Start program may have impacted on a child's behavior and verbal and reading skills over a two year (1986-1988) period, controlling for a full range of background factors including behavior problems and verbal ability at the initiation of participation in the program. The sample of children examined have been born to a nationally representative sample of women age 23 to 30 in 1988. |
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Mott, Frank L. and Stephen V. Quinlan. "Participation in Project Head Start: Determinants and Possible Intermediate-Term Consequences." Working Paper, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1992. |