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Hideo Akabayashi; Ryuichi Tanaka – Education Economics, 2024
We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the impact of preschool attendance on high school graduation and college enrollment for men. Subsequently, we compute the social rate of return to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, School Expansion
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McCarthy, Patricia Bowens; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
This article reports the investigation of the extent to which US preschool federal funding (Head Start) and the preschool enrollment of African American males (aged three to five) affected the high school graduation rates of this population (aged 14 to 19). The authors found that a link exists between preschool enrollment and the high school…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Males, African Americans