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Direct linkLudwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2005
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties in the U.S. to develop Head Start funding proposals. The result was a large and lasting discontinuity in Head Start…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment, Mortality Rate, Children
