Book/Printed Material The benefits and costs of head start

Title

• The benefits and costs of head start

Summary

• "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.

Names

• Ludwig, Jens
• Phillips, Deborah A.
• National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

• Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2007.

Notes

• -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/18/2007.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Also available in print.
• -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HB1

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2007615127
• http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12973 External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2007615127

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2007615127

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