Does Head Start improve children's life changes?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design
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| Abstract: | This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties in the U.S. to develop Head Start funding proposals. The result was a large and lasting discontinuity in Head Start funding rates at the OEO cutoff for grant-writing assistance, but no discontinuity in other forms of federal social spending. We find evidence of a large negative discontinuity at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children ages 5-9 from causes that could be affected by Head Start, but not for other mortality causes or birth cohorts that should not be affected by the program. We also find suggestive evidence for a positive effect of Head Start on educational attainment in both the 1990 Census, concentrated among those cohorts born late enough to have been exposed to the program, and among respondents in the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. |
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| spelling | Ludwig, Jens Verfasser (DE-588)129561215 aut Does Head Start improve children's life changes? evidence from a regression discontinuity design Jens Ludwig ; Douglas L. Miller Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005 50, [19] S. graph. Darst. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 11702 This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties in the U.S. to develop Head Start funding proposals. The result was a large and lasting discontinuity in Head Start funding rates at the OEO cutoff for grant-writing assistance, but no discontinuity in other forms of federal social spending. We find evidence of a large negative discontinuity at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children ages 5-9 from causes that could be affected by Head Start, but not for other mortality causes or birth cohorts that should not be affected by the program. We also find suggestive evidence for a positive effect of Head Start on educational attainment in both the 1990 Census, concentrated among those cohorts born late enough to have been exposed to the program, and among respondents in the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Early childhood education - United States Head Start Program (U.S.) Poor children - Education (Preschool) - United States Preschool children - Health and hygiene - United States Kinderbetreuung / Gesundheitspolitik / Armutspolitik / USA Miller, Douglas L. 1973- Verfasser (DE-588)129292702 aut Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series 11702 (DE-604)BV002801238 11702 http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11702.pdf kostenfrei Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Ludwig, Jens Miller, Douglas L. 1973- Does Head Start improve children's life changes? evidence from a regression discontinuity design National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.>: NBER working paper series Early childhood education - United States Head Start Program (U.S.) Poor children - Education (Preschool) - United States Preschool children - Health and hygiene - United States Kinderbetreuung / Gesundheitspolitik / Armutspolitik / USA |
| title | Does Head Start improve children's life changes? evidence from a regression discontinuity design |
| title_auth | Does Head Start improve children's life changes? evidence from a regression discontinuity design |
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| title_short | Does Head Start improve children's life changes? |
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| title_sub | evidence from a regression discontinuity design |
| topic | Early childhood education - United States Head Start Program (U.S.) Poor children - Education (Preschool) - United States Preschool children - Health and hygiene - United States Kinderbetreuung / Gesundheitspolitik / Armutspolitik / USA |
| topic_facet | Early childhood education - United States Head Start Program (U.S.) Poor children - Education (Preschool) - United States Preschool children - Health and hygiene - United States Kinderbetreuung / Gesundheitspolitik / Armutspolitik / USA |
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