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 …

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large
and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 …

This chapter concerns the state of the literature on early childhood education (ECE)–formal
programs offering group instruction outside the home for children younger than the standard …

Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across
generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which antipoverty programs …

Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime—for example, close to one fifth of
the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children—yet there is …

This study examines the cost efficacy of universal programs, taking advantage of the rich
diversity in rules governing access to state-funded preschool in the United States. Using age …

This paper asks whether increasing public school funding can be an effective long-run crime-
prevention strategy in the US Specifically, we examine the effect of increases in funding …

Using variation in the rollout of the Food Stamp Program (FSP), combined with criminal
conviction data from North Carolina, we find that FSP availability in early childhood leads to …

How does unconditional income for families in poverty affect parental investments for their
young children? Mothers in four US metropolitan areas were randomized to receive a …

Exploiting a 1960s government trial in Copenhagen, we study the long-run and inter-
generational effects of preventive care for toddlers. We combine administrative data with …