The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects

Pages, Remy; Bailey, Drew H.; Duncan, Greg J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.07.003

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“…The crucial role of preprimary education is well-established, with extensive research exploring its diverse impacts on students. Studies delve into both short-and long-term effects, examining not only academic achievements (Anderson & Phillips, 2017;Gormley et al, 2018;Pages et al, 2023) but also broader social-emotional and life outcomes (Gormley et al, 2011;Lee et al, 2021). However, most of this research focuses on the U.S. context, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of preprimary education in Vietnam.…”

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Financing Preprimary Education: How Vietnamese Provinces Allocate Scarce Resources

Nguyen-Hoang,

Ngoc Tran

2023

Public Finance and Management

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This study is the first to examine how provinces allocate resources for preprimary education in Vietnam. We find that despite reliance on the central government’s Decision 46, provinces in Vietnam show considerable autonomy and exhibit substantial variation in how they allocate education aid to preprimary education. The variation comes to light in how they allocate funds between salary and non-salary purposes and how they fiscally treat different types of students, namely socio-economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities and in different grade levels. This study paves the way for exploration of a multitude of unanswered research inquiries in preprimary education in Vietnam.

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Financing Preprimary Education: How Vietnamese Provinces Allocate Scarce Resources

Nguyen-Hoang,

Ngoc Tran

2023

Public Finance and Management

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Learning About Development from Interventions

Bailey,

Watts,

Hart

et al. 2024

Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

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In this review, we argue that the role of causally informative evaluations of interventions within developmental psychology should be elevated. Causally informative research on the effects of intervention inputs on medium- and long-term outcomes are sufficiently relevant to developmental psychology to inform or even constrain our theories and to inspire future developmental research. We review several examples of research that yielded developmental insights from such work and discuss a broad theoretical framework for using developmental theory to reason about the effects of interventions and vice versa. Finally, we discuss potential challenges that have inhibited the role of causally informative research on interventions in developmental psychology along with actionable steps researchers can take to integrate such work more deeply into the field.

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Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Head Start and Children’s School Readiness

Markowitz

2024

AERA Open

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Teachers in early childhood education (ECE) settings are central to providing children with high-quality experiences that promote both early development and long-term well-being; unfortunately, rates of teacher turnover are high in ECE settings. There are strong theoretical reasons to assume turnover is negatively linked with children’s academic and socioemotional development, but few empirical studies test this hypothesis. Using an econometric fixed effects approach in two waves of data from the nationally representative Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, this study provides the first national estimate of the relationship between within-year lead teacher turnover and children’s development in Head Start. I find an annual within-year turnover rate of ~9%, about twice that of K–12, and that turnover is negatively associated with children’s language outcomes alongside suggestive evidence for behavioral outcomes.

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The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects

Cited by 3 publications

References 113 publications

Financing Preprimary Education: How Vietnamese Provinces Allocate Scarce Resources

Financing Preprimary Education: How Vietnamese Provinces Allocate Scarce Resources

Learning About Development from Interventions

Within-Year Teacher Turnover in Head Start and Children’s School Readiness

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