10.17889/E110705
Deming, David
Replication data for: Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2008
10.1257/app.1.3.111
10.1257/app.1.3.111
V0
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)