Preventing Behavior Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from

This paper shows that participation in Head Start decreases behavioral problems, grade repetition, and obesity of children at ages 12 and 13, and depression, criminal behavior, and obesity at ages 16 and 17. Head Start’s eligibility rules induce discontinuities in program participation as a function...

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Main Authors: Head Start, Pedro Carneiro, Rita Ginja Y
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
JEL Codes
C21
I28
I38. Keywords
Regression discontinuity design
early childhood development
non-cognitive skills
Head We thank Joe Altonji
Sami Berlinski
Richard Blundell
Janet Currie
Blundell
Currie
sami
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.187.1315
http://client.norc.org/jole/SOLEweb/8201.pdf
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Summary:This paper shows that participation in Head Start decreases behavioral problems, grade repetition, and obesity of children at ages 12 and 13, and depression, criminal behavior, and obesity at ages 16 and 17. Head Start’s eligibility rules induce discontinuities in program participation as a function of income, which we use to identify program impacts. Since there is a range of discontinuities (they vary with family size, state and year), we identify the e¤ect of Head Start for a large set of individuals, as opposed to a small set of people around a single discontinuity. Start.

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