Program evaluation methods are widely applied in economics to assess the effects of policy
interventions and other treatments of interest. In this article, we describe the main …

The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

Researchers commonly interpret effect sizes by applying benchmarks proposed by Jacob
Cohen over a half century ago. However, effects that are small by Cohen's standards are …

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 …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past
half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job …

That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany
by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

We study how early child care (ECC) affects children's development in a marginal treatment
effect framework that allows for rich forms of observed and unobserved effect heterogeneity …