Longer Term Effects of Head Start / Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas, Janet Currie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garces, Eliana.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Thomas, Duncan.

Currie, Janet.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8054.

NBER working paper series no. w8054

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Head Start programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Cambridge, Massachussetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, [2000]

Summary:

Little is known about the long-term effects of participation in Head Start. This paper draws on unique non-experimental data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of participation in Head Start on schooling attainment, earnings, and criminal behavior. Among whites, participation in Head Start is associated with a significantly increased probability of completing high school and attending college, and we find some evidence of elevated earnings in one's early twenties. African Americans who participated in Head Start are significantly less likely to have been charged or convicted of a crime. The evidence also suggests that there are positive spillovers from older children who attended Head Start to their younger siblings.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2000.