What is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention / Maya Rossin-Slater, Miriam Wüst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossin-Slater, Maya.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wüst, Miriam.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22700.

NBER working paper series no. w22700

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

We study the impact of preschool targeted at children from low-income families over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with an infant health intervention. Using Danish administrative data with variation in the timing of program implementation over 1933-1960, we find lasting benefits of access to preschool on adult educational attainment, earnings, and survival beyond age 65. We also show that children of women exposed to preschool obtain more education by age 25. However, exposure to nurse home visiting in infancy reduces the added value of preschool. This result implies that the programs serve as partial substitutes.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2016.