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Title: High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons’. Singletons’ gains in short-term cognition and age-18 non-cognitive skills were comparable to those of the Perry Preschool and Carolina Abecedarian Projects, supporting those programs’ scalability. For twins, however, the program generated smaller positive short-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents’ response to the program. A household production model suggests that the possibility of jointly supplying parenting to twins helps explain those differences.

Url: https://docs.iza.org/dp16442.pdf

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Authors: Dougan, William; García, Jorge Luis; Polovnikov, Illia

Series Title: Discussion Paper Series

Publication Number: 16442

Institution: IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Pages: 1-48

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Health, Work, Family, and Time

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