Investing in Preschool Programs
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The available evidence on the extent to which expenditures on early childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of children is summarized, and different models of human development used by social scientists are described and examined.Abstract:
early childhood education programs constitute worthy social investments in the human capital of children. We begin with a short overview of existing early childhuman capital of children. We begin with a short overview of existing early childhood education programs, and then summarize results from a substantial body of hood education programs, and then summarize results from a substantial body of methodologically sound evaluations of the impacts of early childhood education. We methodologically sound evaluations of the impacts of early childhood education. We fithat the evidence supports few unqualifi ed conclusions. Many early childhood fi nd that the evidence supports few unqualifi ed conclusions. Many early childhoodread more
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Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education
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Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
TL;DR: Evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement and how early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs is summarized.
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Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
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The causal effect of education on earnings
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