The economics of early childhood investments / / Council of Economic Advisers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (43 pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Early childhood education - Economic aspects - United States
Education and state - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910702713303321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From Preschool to Prosperity : The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education / / Timothy J. Bartik |
Autore | Bartik Timothy J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kalamazoo, Michigan : , : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (130 p.) |
Disciplina | 372.210973 |
Collana | WE focus series |
Soggetto topico |
Education, Preschool - Economic aspects
Education, Preschool Early childhood education - Economic aspects Early childhood education EDUCATION - Preschool & Kindergarten Education, Preschool - United States Early childhood education - United States Education, Preschool - Economic aspects - United States Early childhood education - Economic aspects - United States |
ISBN | 0-88099-483-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : What are early childhood education programs? ; What are the benefits from early childhood education? ; How can early childhood education affect the child's future life course? ; A proposal for early childhood education ; The plan of the book -- 2. What is the evidence on the earnings effects of high-quality early childhood education, and why should we believe it? : Why the research evidence for early childhood education is credible ; Random assignment studies ; Other long-term studies with good comparison groups: Head Start ; The Chicago Child-Parent Center Program ; Predicting long-term earnings effects from short-term test score effects ; Infant health and development program ; North Carolina's Smart Start Program, and more at four ; State and local pre-K programs: the regression discontinuity evidence ; Summary of the evidence -- 3. How do the adult earnings benefits of high-quality early childhood education compare to costs? : Future earnings versus present costs ; Parental earnings ; Are these effects large? ; Closing comments -- 4. Criticisms of the research evidence : Criticism 1: The evidence for early childhood education's benefits only comes from small and expensive experiments run a long time ago ; Criticism 2: Early childhood education is argued to be ineffective because the recent Head Start experiment has test score effects that quickly faded to statistical insignificance ; Criticism 3: Why haven't Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that have prominently adopted universal pre-K, been more obviously successful in improving test scores and other social indicators? ; Criticism 4: The recent Tennessee pre-K experiment shows that test score effects quickly fade, which raises questions about whether state pre-K programs are effective ; Concluding comments -- 5. How can early childhood education programs best be designed? : Quality of teacher-child interactions ; Class size and teacher credentials ; Middle-class children ; Program duration ; Earlier versus later interventions -- 6. Spillover benefits: how does early childhood education affect other groups than those families directly served by these programs? : Skill spillovers ; Peer effects in education ; Spillovers from reducing crime ; Government/taxpayer benefits ; Pre-K: the next generation ; Concluding comments -- 7. A proposed early childhood education strategy : Full-day universal pre-K for four-year-olds ; Targeted educare/abecedarian for all disadvantaged children ; Nurse family partnership for all disadvantaged first-time mothers ; Costs ; Aggregate benefits ; Accountability and quality improvement ; What level of government should be responsible for early childhood education? ; Concluding comments -- 8. Why early childhood education makes sense now: ECE's place in the ongoing struggle for broader economic opportunities : Labor supply and labor demand ; History matters ; The continuing argument over expanding educational access ; But why early childhood education? And why now? ; Doing the good we know how to do. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910324047903321 |
Bartik Timothy J | ||
Kalamazoo, Michigan : , : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Investing in young children pays dividends : the economic case for early care and education : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 27, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 69 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Education, Preschool - Economic aspects - United States
Early childhood education - Economic aspects - United States Economic development - Effect of education on - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Education, preschool
Early childhood education Economic development Education Business & economics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Investing in Young Children Pays Dividends |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694469303321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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