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Does earlier intervention result in higher returns?
One intriguing figure in the new book, Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life, examines the benefits per dollar of different early childhood and early school-age programs at different ages. (The figure is on p. 182, in … Continue reading
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How much can early childhood education do to reduce income inequality?
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote in a recent column that the Occupy Wall Street movement “is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a … Continue reading
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How does preschool have long-run effects?
A recently published book has some interesting findings on the causal chain of events by which high-quality preschool education has long-run effects on adult outcomes. The book is “Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life”. I recommend … Continue reading
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Consequences of reducing pre-K quality
One of my news alerts recently came across an interesting blog entry from Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Her blog entry highlighted recent budget cuts to Georgia’s pre-K program, and their consequences. According to the blog entry, the … Continue reading
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Financing early childhood programs by increased taxes will not destroy local jobs, but rather will create jobs
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I recently testified about early childhood programs before a state legislative committee. A legislator asked a subsequent witness a question whose gist was as follows: “Won’t imposing the taxes to pay for … Continue reading
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Parenting programs are not a “cheap substitute” for expanding high-quality preschool
I recently testified about early childhood programs before a state legislative committee. One of the representatives asked a subsequent witness a question, whose gist was as follows: Wouldn’t it be better and cheaper to address parenting rather than spending all … Continue reading
Book review of Investing in Kids in Monthly Labor Review
The latest issue of Monthly Labor Review has a very nice review by economist Brian Keaton of my book, Investing in Kids. MLR is a well-respected journal published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. Department of … Continue reading
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Another take on Head Start
A just-released paper, by Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller, provides a somewhat different analysis of recent research on Head Start, and its implications for policy. (Unfortunately, for many potentially interested readers, the paper is probably not available for … Continue reading
Why early childhood programs needn’t wait for school reform
One argument you sometimes hear against early childhood programs is that these programs won’t work unless we have good K-12 systems. Therefore, the argument goes, early childhood programs shouldn’t be vigorously pursued unless we can simultaneously pursue K-12 school reforms. … Continue reading
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Why the goal of local economic development should be higher earnings per capita, not job growth, and why it matters
Developing good local economic development policies depends in part on having the right goals. Many economic developers and policymakers see economic development as being about increasing local job growth. But increasing local job growth is not a sound goal for … Continue reading
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