The benefits and costs of head start
By: Jens Ludwig, Deborah A. Phillips.
Contributors: Ludwig, Jens.; Phillips, Deborah A.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12973; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12973.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
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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