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What are economic benefits and why do we care?
My just-published book, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education, focuses on preschool’s economic benefits. What are “economic benefits” and why should we care about them? Many people have an adverse reaction to focusing on the … Continue reading
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My new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, is available on September 15, 2014
My second book on early childhood programs is available as of September 15, 2014. This book is entitled From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Programs. This book is available free as a pdf file, at a … Continue reading
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Incentives and the public interest
A new paper by me and George Erickcek on incentives was published online today in the journal Economic Development Quarterly. The online version is behind a paywall for non-academic readers, but it is quite similar to a prior working paper … Continue reading
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My new book will be available September 15
My new book, “From Preschool to Prosperity”, will be available September 15, at Amazon and at the Upjohn Institute website. More on this book starting on September 15, when I will begin a series of blog posts summarizing some of … Continue reading
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Restoring middle-class opportunities for more Americans
Nick Kristof’s recent column in the New York Times highlighted some of the economic and social challenges facing many working-class Americans. He focuses on an Oregon friend of his who has faced many economic and social challenges due to his … Continue reading
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Pre-K benefits do not depend on anti-crime benefits and small-scale extremely intense programs
A recent Vox article by Libby Nelson made some useful points about pre-K, but also encouraged some misconceptions. The article pointed out that in many benefit-cost studies of pre-K, for example of the Perry program and the Chicago CPC program, … Continue reading
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Where is the weight of the evidence, and the burden of proof, for targeted vs. universal pre-K?
The Hamilton Project has released a useful e-book that presents evidence on selected anti-poverty policies. This includes some discussion of pre-K programs, by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. The Cascio/Schanzenbach chapter argues for expansion of high-quality targeted pre-K. My … Continue reading
Achievement gaps at kindergarten entry, income inequality, universal pre-K, and more-intensive early childhood education
Milagros Nores and Steve Barnett have written a recently-released report on how kindergarten readiness and preschool enrollment varies by different groups, including for different income groups. What they document is that at kindergarten entrance, children in disadvantaged groups are far … Continue reading
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What do we know about pre-K peer effects?
A recent opinion piece by David Kirp in the New York Times argued that it makes no sense to put low-income children in income-segregated pre-K programs, as we do in the Head Start program, because of the importance of classroom … Continue reading
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Whitehurst’s latest comments on pre-K
Russ Whitehurst has some more recent comments on pre-K, this time arguing against a more recent study of Georgia pre-K. This more recent study found pre-K effects on cognitive skills which, averaged across all tests used, had an average “effect … Continue reading
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