Head Start Evidence
HEAD START RESEARCH SUMMARIES
“Short-run Fade-out in Head Start and Implications for Long-run Effectiveness” by Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, Douglas L. Miller and Na’ama Shenhav (2016).
“Revisiting the Impact of Head Start” by Claire Montialoux (2016).
“Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?” by Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller (2011).
“Long-Term Effects of Head Start on Low-Income Children” by Jens Ludwig and Deborah Phillips (2008).
“The Benefits and Costs of Head Start” by Jens Ludwig and Deborah Phillips (2007).
LONG-TERM EFFECTS FROM SIBLING COMPARISONS
“Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start” by Douglas L. Miller, Na’ama Shenhav, and Michel Grosz (2023).
“Elusive Longer-Run Impacts of Head Start: Replications Within and Across Cohorts” by Remy Pages, Dylan J. Lukes, Drew H. Bailey, and Greg J. Duncan (2020).
“The Long-Term Impact of the Head Start Program” by Lauren Bauer and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (2016).
“Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start” by David Deming (2009).
“Longer-Term Effects of Head Start” by Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas, and Janet Currie (2002).
LONG-TERM EFFECTS FROM DISCONTINUITIES
“Head Start and Mothers’ Work: Free Child Care or Something More?” by Ariel Marek Pihl (2022).
“Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start” by Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja (2014).
“Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design” by Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller (2007).
LONG-TERM EFFECTS FROM PROGRAM INTRODUCTION
“Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood” by Andrew Barr and Chloe R. Gibbs (2022).
“Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency” by Martha Bailey, Shuqiao Sun, and Brenden Timpe (2021).
“Reducing Inequality through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” by Rucker C. Johnson and C. Kirabo Jackson (2019).
“Head Start’s Long-Run Impact: Evidence from the Program’s Introduction” by Owen Thompson (2018).
EVIDENCE FROM 1990S FUNDING EXPANSIONS
“Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence” by Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson (2023).
“Public Investments in Early Childhood Education and Academic Performance: Evidence from Head Start in Texas” by Esra Kose (2023).
THE NATIONAL HEAD START IMPACT STUDY (HSIS)
“Head Start Impact Study Final Report” by Michael Puma et al. (2010, U.S. Dept. of HHS).
“Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study Final Report” by Michael Puma et al. (2012, U.S. Dept. of HHS).
REANALYSES OF THE NATIONAL HEAD START IMPACT STUDY
“Revisiting the Impact of Head Start” by Claire Montialoux (2016).
Considerable Variation in Effectiveness
“New Findings on Impact Variation from the Head Start Impact Study: Informing the Scale-Up of Early Childhood Programs” by Pamela A. Morris, Maia Connors, Allison Friedman-Krauss, Dana Charles McCoy, Christina Weiland, Avi Feller, Lindsay Page, Howard Bloom and Hirokazu Yoshikawa (2018).
“Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start” by Christopher R. Walters (2015).
“Quantifying Variation in Head Start Effects on Young Children’s Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills Using Data from the National Head Start Impact Study” by Howard Bloom and Christina Weiland (2015).
Pronounced Effects for Particular Subgroups
“Compared to What? Variation in the Impacts of Early Childhood Education by Alternative Care Type” by Avi Feller, Todd Grindal, Luke Miratrix and Lindsay C. Page (2016).
“Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start” by Patrick Kline and Christopher R. Walters (2016).
“Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start” by Marianne P. Bitler, Hilary W. Hoynes and Thurston Domina (2014).
Impact on Parents of Head Start Children
“Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence” by Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson (2023).
“Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Head Start on Mothers’ Labor Supply and Human Capital Investments” by Cuiping Schiman (2022).
“The Influence of Low-Income Children’s Participation in Head Start on Their Parents’ Education and Employment” by Terri J. Sabol and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (2015).
“Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study” by Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen (2013).