TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start
JO  - American economic journal: applied economics
A1  - Deming, David
SP  - 111
EP  - 134
VL  - 1
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper provides new evidence on the long-term benefits of Head Start using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I compare siblings who differ in their participation in the program, controlling for a variety of pre-treatment covariates. I estimate that Head Start participants gain 0.23 standard deviations on a summary index of young adult outcomes. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite "fadeout" of test score gains. (JEL H52, J13, I28, I38)<p /> 
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SN  - 1945-7782
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.1.3.111
ID  - ref1
ER  -