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Download full textLudwig, Jens; Phillips, Deborah – Society for Research in Child Development, 2007
We review what is known about Head Start's impacts on children and argue that the program is likely to generate benefits to participants and society as a whole that are larger than program costs. Our conclusions differ from those in some previous reviews because we use a more appropriate standard to judge program effectiveness (benefit-cost…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, Program Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness
Direct linkJacob, Brian; Ludwig, Jens – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
This review paper, prepared for the forthcoming Russell Sage volume Changing Poverty, considers the ability of different education policies to improve the learning outcomes of low-income children in America. Disagreements on this question stem in part from different beliefs about the problems with our nation's public schools. In our view there…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation, School Choice, Economically Disadvantaged
Ludwig, 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
