Does Head Start Yield Long-Term Benefits?

Aughinbaugh, Alison

doi:10.2307/3069637

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“…11 See Heckman et al (2010a), Heckman et al (2010b), Reynolds et al (2004), Reynolds et al (2007), Reynolds et al (2011), Campbell et al (2002, , Campbell, Conti, Heckman, Moon, and Pinto (2012); Aughinbaugh (2001), and Garces et al (2002). 12 The aides received 8 weeks of training in nutrition and primary health care and another 8 weeks of training in child development, teaching techniques and toy making.…”

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Vermeersch¹,

Gertler²,

Pinto³

et al. 2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality skills. We reinterviewed the study participants 20 years after the intervention. Stimulation increased the average earnings of participants by 42 percent. Treatment group earnings caught up to the earnings of a matched non-stunted comparison group. These findings show that psychosocial stimulation early in childhood in disadvantaged settings can have substantial effects on labor market outcomes and reduce later life inequality.

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Vermeersch¹,

Gertler²,

Pinto³

et al. 2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…Others investigate the impact of child care on the children's outcomes (see Baydar and BrooksGunn, 1991, and Aughinbaugh, 2001). Another branch investigates cost and quality differences between Relative to the number of studies relating individuals' outcomes to their church attendance, very few economic studies focus on the behavior of the church itself or how such behavior is influenced by the actions of other churches.…”

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“…Several determinants of i's value are presented in equation (1). X i is a vector of observable characteristics for church i.…”

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“…The wide variety of services that churches offer has the ability to address community needs and benefit a large number of individuals. 1 While the benefit of these services is difficult to quantify, prior studies find that religious involvement is correlated with greater life expectancy (McCullough et al, 2000) and higher incomes (Gruber, 2005).…”

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“…In addition, churches may have different motivations and considerations in entering the market for services than do other organizations. It is often the case that local governments and 1 We recognize that not all religious congregations refer to themselves as a "church." However, this is the common convention for our sample of Christian churches.…”

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Competition and the Strategic Choices of Churches

Rennhoff

Owens

2012

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

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In this paper, we examine how the decisions of churches are impacted by the decisions of rival churches. Using a novel data set of Christian churches in two suburban Nashville, TN counties, we estimate a model of strategic interaction based on empirical models of discrete games. We focus on a church's decision of whether or not to provide a week-day child care program. Empirical evidence indicates that churches are more likely to offer a service when a nearby same-denomination church offers it, but are less likely to offer the service if a nearby different-denomination church offers the service. This suggests that churches may feel pressure to match the services offered by same-denomination churches. Using our estimates, we conduct counterfactual simulations which indicate that a new church's entry may increase or decrease the number of churches offering child care depending on the size and denomination of the entrant. Additional counterfactual simulations indicate that in some cases, increases in population may decrease the probability of a church offering child care.

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