The benefits and costs of Head Start
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Author
Contributions
- Phillips, Deborah. - Contributor
- National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor
Publication
2007 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
10,500 words, Guess
Page Count
42 pages
Identifiers
- OCLC Control Number122257645
- Open LibraryOL17633538M
Description
"In this essay we review what is known about Head Start and argue that the program is likely to generate benefits to participants and society as a whole that are large enough to justify the program's costs. Our conclusions differ importantly from those offered in some previous reviews because we use a more appropriate standard to judge the success of Head Start (namely, benefit-cost analysis), draw on new accumulating evidence for Head Start's long-term effects on early cohorts of program participants, and discuss why common interpretations of a recent randomized experimental evaluation of Head Start's short-term impacts may be overly pessimistic. While in principle there could be more beneficial ways of deploying Head Start resources, the benefits of such changes remain uncertain and there is some downside risk"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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Series Statement
- NBER working paper series -- no. 12973.
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 12973.
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