The lasting effects of early-childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans and their children

JL García, JJ Heckman… - Journal of Political …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper demonstrates the long-term intra-and intergenerational benefits of the
HighScope Perry Preschool Project, which targeted disadvantaged African American …

Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

JL García, JJ Heckman, AL Ziff - European economic review, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper studies the life-cycle impacts of a widely emulated high-quality, intensive early
childhood program with long-term follow up. The program starts early in life (at 8 weeks of …

The affective basis of violence

R Mizen - Infant mental health journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Violence is a complex matter, and understandingly perhaps, it is the objective, behavioral
aspects that are commonly focused on. Here, however, it is the subjective psychological and …

Socio-emotional learning among low-income prekindergarteners: The roles of individual factors and early intervention

CF Mondi, AJ Reynolds - Early education and development, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Research Findings: Previous research has indicated that low-income children
are at increased risk for socio-emotional problems, which may contribute to socioeconomic …

Randomized manipulation of early cognitive experience impacts adult brain structure

MJ Farah, S Sternberg, TA Nichols, JT Duda… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Does early exposure to cognitive and linguistic stimulation impact brain structure? Or do
genetic predispositions account for the co-occurrence of certain neuroanatomical …

The early biopsychosocial development of boys and the origins of violence in males

P Golding, HE Fitzgerald - Infant Mental Health Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We apply a biopsychosocial approach to introduce early‐in‐life experiences that explain a
significant part of the male preponderance in the perpetration of violence. Early caregiver …

[PDF][PDF] The lasting effects of early childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans and their children

JL Garcıa, J Heckman, V Ronda - Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - researchgate.net
This paper analyzes newly collected life-cycle panel data on the original participants of the
pioneering HighScope Perry Preschool Project (PPP) social experiment through late midlife …

Is reflective supervision enough? An exploration of workforce perspectives

T Eaves Simpson, JL Robinson… - Infant Mental Health …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Infant mental health practice requires the performance of intense emotional labor.
Professionals comprising the infant mental health (IMH) field are largely women at seminal …

Early lead exposure and outcomes in adulthood

H Grönqvist, JP Nilsson, PO Robling - 2017 - econstor.eu
We exploit the phase-out of leaded gasoline to isolate the impact of early childhood lead
exposure on outcomes in adulthood. By combining administrative data on school …

Child development: Concepts and theories

JA Mercer - 2018 - torrossa.com
Ian and Jennifer are worried about their child development exam. They leaf through their
textbooks but can't seem to get on top of the information.'There are so many little details in …