Arbeitspapier
The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We estimate vectors of latent skills for individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine motor, and social-emotional skills. We go beyond reporting treatment effects as unweighted item scores. We determine whether the program affects the latent skills generating correct answers to lists of test items and how the program affects the mapping from skills to item scores. Enhancements in latent skills explain most of the conventional treatment effects for language and cognition. The program operates primarily by improving skills and not by improving how effectively skills are used. The program barely changes the map from latent skills to item test scores.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15132
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Cultural Economics: Public Policy
- Thema
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experiment
scaling
mechanisms
home visiting programs
measurement
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zhou, Jin
Heckman, James J.
Liu, Bei
Lu, Mai
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Zhou, Jin
- Heckman, James J.
- Liu, Bei
- Lu, Mai
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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