-
Recent Posts
- More on the finding that college pays off less if you grew up poor
- We have enough evidence to expand quality pre-K
- Reflections coming out of the recent AEI forum debating pre-K
- What do we know about right-to-work laws and state prosperity? Not much, because of limited variation over time in which states are RTW states
- Human Capital Programs Can Promote Local Economic Development; As Illustration, Consider “Promise-style” Place-Based College Scholarship Programs
Archives
Categories
Meta
Blogroll
- Arthur Reynolds
- Buffett Early Childhood Fund
- Conor Williams
- Early Years
- ECE Policy Matters
- Ed Central-Early Ed
- Eye on Early Education
- First Five Years Fund
- Kalamazoo County Ready 4s
- Max Sawicky
- National Institute for Early Education Research
- Nurse Family Partnership
- Ounce of Prevention Fund
- ReadyNation
- Sara Mead twitter link
- The Promise of Kalamazoo
- Topics in Early Childhood Education
Book links
- Amazon link for "From Preschool to Prosperity"
- Amazon link for "Investing in Kids"
- Barnes and Noble link for "From Preschool to Prosperity"
- Barnes and Noble link for "Investing in Kids"
- Upjohn Institute Press link for "From Preschool to Prosperity"
- Upjohn Institute Press link for "Investing in Kids"
Links for Tim Bartik
Category Archives: Early childhood programs
The State of the Union and the States
President Obama’s State of the Union address focused on “winning the future”. This strategy included winning the future through public investments, including educational investments. For advocates of early childhood programs, it is noteworthy that the educational investments that were mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Business incentives, Early childhood programs, Economic development, National vs. state vs. local
Comments Off on The State of the Union and the States
Targeted pre-k vs. universal pre-k: overall effects and distributional effects
In a previous post, I showed that under plausible assumptions, universal pre-k would have broad benefits for the middle class as well as for the poor. But how does universal pre-k compare with a preschool program that is more tightly … Continue reading
Preschool and state economic development: employers speak out
One of my Google News alerts came across this interesting story from Iowa. Iowa is currently debating the future of its “Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program”, which currently enrolls over half of all Iowa four-year olds. The program is designed to … Continue reading
Universal pre-k: effects on income distribution
Over the course of several different blog posts, I have been discussing what both logic and evidence suggest for how the effects of preschool vary across different income groups. Given this discussion, what are plausible estimates of the effects of … Continue reading
Why Michigan (and other states) should invest in preschool
I recently (January 11, 2011) gave a speech on the case for investing in preschool to the Detroit Area Grantmakers of the Council of Michigan Foundations. This speech has recently been posted at the Upjohn Institute website. The speech includes … Continue reading
Posted in Early childhood programs
Comments Off on Why Michigan (and other states) should invest in preschool
What is the evidence for whether preschool works for more advantaged children? Part III: Evidence from a random assignment experiment
As I mentioned in a previous post, most of the random assignment experiments for the effects of preschool have focused on disadvantaged students. In general, foundations and governments have not financed random assignment experiments on how preschool has affected more … Continue reading
What is the evidence for whether preschool works for more advantaged children? Part II: Evidence from Tulsa studies
Studies of pre-k in Tulsa, by William Gormley and his colleagues at Georgetown, provide good direct evidence on the relative effects of a state pre-school program on kindergarten readiness for different income groups. Tulsa participates in Oklahoma’s universal pre-k program, … Continue reading
What is the evidence for whether preschool works for more advantaged children? Part I, Studies of state pre-k programs that are not exclusively focused on the poor
I have been discussing how the economic development benefits of pre-k vary across different income groups (e.g., lower class vs. middle class vs. upper class). This is a key issue in deciding on the merits of “targeted pre-k”, which would … Continue reading
What does the distinction between universal versus targeted preschool mean?
When we talk about creating “universal” access to preschool, versus expanding “targeted” preschool, we largely are asking whether we should just expand preschool for the poor, versus whether we should also expand preschool for the working class and middle class. … Continue reading
Early childhood programs and income distribution: some points of agreement
In this post, and subsequent posts, I will consider how early childhood programs affect the earnings of different income groups. As part of this discussion, I will also consider the politically contentious issue of whether expanded pre-K programs should be … Continue reading
Posted in Distribution of benefits, Early childhood programs
Comments Off on Early childhood programs and income distribution: some points of agreement
investinginkids 