A number of authors have investigated the impact of early childhood education and care
programs on the development of children. Often they have focused on the effects on children …

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of
recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

Despite calls to expand early childhood education (ECE) in the United States, questions
remain regarding its medium-and long-term impacts on educational outcomes. We use meta …

The most controversial issue currently regarding the education of children with special
educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is widely acknowledged to be that of inclusion or …

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start …

We summarize the available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early
childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of …

Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small‐to‐large impacts on
children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college
completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset …