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Title: Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence from Three Settings
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: We explore how access to Head Start impacts maternal labor supply. Increased maternal employment and earnings could indirectly impact children and help explain Head Start’s short-lived cognitive impacts or long-run economic effects for children. Using the 1990s enrollment and funding expansions, the 1960s rollout, and the 2002 Head Start Impact Study randomized control trial we show that Head Start increases short-run employment among single mothers. We find little evidence Head Start leads to persistent increases in maternal employment. Viewing Head Start as a bundle of family-level treatments can shed new light on both short- and long-run impacts of the program
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Authors: Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley
Publisher: Brigham Young University
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Topics: Education, Family and Marriage
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