Arbeitspapier
The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting inter-generational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group across the life cycle, which translates into better family environments for the second generation leading to positive intergenerational gains. There are long-lasting beneficial program effects on cognition through age 54, contradicting claims of fadeout that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first-generation control group.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14575
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Education: Government Policy
Field Experiments
Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- Thema
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early childhood education
intergenerational mobility
racial inequality
social mobility
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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García, Jorge Luis
Heckman, James J.
Ronda, Victor
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- García, Jorge Luis
- Heckman, James J.
- Ronda, Victor
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2021