The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

This report considers the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curriculum
throughout Europe. It explores the official curriculum, specified by national or regional …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

This study examines the effects of universal Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) on
child development and children's later life outcomes. Using meta-analytical techniques, we …

This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

In this study, we use a large-scale (n= 33,717) ethnically diverse (59% Latinx, 34% Black,
and 7% White/other) largely low-income sample to assess the predictive power of a wide …

We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across
provinces in Argentina to examine how teacher strikes affect student long-run outcomes …

Practical Sampling provides guidance for researchers dealing with the everyday problems of
sampling. Using the practical design approach Henry integrates sampling into the overall …

Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on
noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a …