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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement trajectories suggests that such a program offered to low-income children would essentially eliminate the income-based gap at age three and between a third and three-quarters of the age-five and age-eight gaps.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7087
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Subject
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human capital
skill formation
education
early childhood
government policy
Frühkindliche Bildung
Bildungsinvestition
Wirkungsanalyse
Kognition
Bildungsniveau
Schätzung
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Duncan, Greg J.
Sojourner, Aaron J.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Duncan, Greg J.
- Sojourner, Aaron J.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2012
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