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

This article compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for
disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard …

This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker
(1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation …

The US National Academy of Sciences reports rising mortality for US adults, most steeply for
White adults with a secondary education or less. The rise is largely attributable to deaths of …

Many low-income and minority children in the United States and globally are at risk of poor
educational trajectories and, consequently, diminished life courses, because their …

General cognitive ability (GCA) is an individual difference dimension linked to important
academic, occupational, and health-related outcomes and its development is strongly linked …

Abstract We examine the North Carolina Pre‐K (NC Pre‐K) program to test the hypothesis
that observed variation in effects resulting from exposure to the program can be attributed to …

The early childhood education teacher workforce is consistently relied upon to bolster
children's academic and socioemotional development in preparation for kindergarten and …

We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human
capital development–by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and …

This paper monetizes the life-cycle intragenerational and intergenerational benefits of the
Perry Preschool Project, a pioneering high-quality early childhood education program …