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Direct linkMiller, Lawrence J.; Smith, Stephanie C. – Educational Policy, 2011
With growing evidence that human capital investment is more efficiently spent on younger children coupled with wide variation in preschool access across states, this article uses a neoliberal approach to examine the potential social costs and benefits that could accrue should the United States decide to implement a centralized preschool…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation, Accountability
Download full textCooper, Donna; Costa, Kristina – Center for American Progress, 2012
There is a mounting body of research demonstrating the impact of early learning on lifelong success. The quality of early child care is the most consistent predictor of young children's behavior, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Childcare Research Network. Children who receive high-quality child care…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Care, Educational Quality
Committee for Economic Development, 2012
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has a decades-old commitment to quality early childhood education. CED Trustees have always been in the forefront of the effort to promote early learning and development for all children. Over recent years, the case for investment in the early years of childhood has become stronger and more urgent.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Investment, Human Capital
Lochner, Lance – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first discusses evidence on the effects of educational…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Crime, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Braconier, Henrik – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents' income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes, raise growth, lower the consequences of a disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Low Income, Educational Objectives, Disadvantaged Youth
Nielsen, Natalie; McCarthy, Kirstin – Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2009
Business-Higher Education Forum's study of the Seamless Education Partnership began with a theory of action for cross-sector efforts to increase alignment from Pre-K through graduate school (P-20) and improve educational outcomes. BHEF's theory of action posits that community leaders coalesce around a shared vision that is shaped by local context…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Alignment (Education)
Edie, David – Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, 2007
The last quarter century of research on brain development suggests that the nurturing and learning experiences available in the first few years play a strong role in shaping a child's development. Babies are born with a remarkable intrinsic ability to learn. The foundation for a child's intellect, personality and skills is established in the first…
Descriptors: Young Children, Brain, Longitudinal Studies, Early Childhood Education
Crosnoe, Robert; Cooper, Carey E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
Working from a core perspective on the developmental implications of economic disadvantage, this study attempted to identify "family-based" mechanisms of economic effects on early learning and their potential "school-based" remedies. Multilevel analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort revealed that…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Teacher Qualifications, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Agenda for Children, 2006
The "2006 Agenda for Children Louisiana Kids Count Special Report on Child Care" documents and describes the supply and affordability of child care and early education in each of Louisiana's 64 parishes. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Louisiana's children under the age of five are cared for by someone other than a parent or guardian on a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Well Being, Employed Parents, Child Care
Bartik, Timothy J. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006
"Employment Research" is published quarterly by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment and Research. Issues appear in January, April, July, and October. This issue of "Employment Research" presents an article that summarizes the author's study of the effects of high-quality universal preschool education when it is treated as an economic…
Descriptors: Full State Funding, Preschool Education, Labor Supply, Human Capital
Reynolds, Arthur J., Ed.; Rolnick, Arthur J., Ed.; Englund, Michelle M., Ed.; Temple, Judy A., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
"Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life" presents research findings on the effects of early childhood programs and practices in the first decade of life and their implications for policy development and reform. Leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of human development and in early childhood learning…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Human Capital, School Readiness, Early Intervention
Cawley, John; Spiess, C. Katharina – National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Developed Nations, Child Care
O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary…
Descriptors: Productivity, Human Capital, Quality Control, Education Work Relationship
