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We have enough evidence to expand quality pre-K
Professor Dale Farran of Vanderbilt University has a new policy brief at the Brookings Institution website, entitled “We need more evidence in order to create effective pre-K programs”. This ...
https://investinginkids.net/2016/02/25/we-have-enough-evidence-to-expand-quality-pre-k/
Reflections coming out of the recent AEI forum debating pre-K
On Wednesday, February 17, I participated in a forum at the American Enterprise Institute. The forum, organized by AEI Research Fellow Katharine Stevens, was entitled “Does pre-K work? A look a...
What do we know about right-to-work laws and state prosperi... of limited variation over time in which states are RTW states
Vigorous debate continues over the issue of “right-to-work” (RTW) laws, and how they affect a state’s economic growth and wage rates. Right-to-work laws make it illegal to require workers i...
Social benefits from job creation much higher in high-unemployment local economies
A paper of mine was just published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. The paper is entitled “The Social Value of Job Loss and Its Effect on the Costs of U.S. Environmental Reg...
March 25 interview on WWJ Radio Detroit, “Every Kid Matters”
I was interviewed on March 25 as one of three panelists on a hour-long show on WWJ Radio Detroit. The interview was part of a series of radio broadcasts, on the last Wednesday of each month at 7 ...
https://investinginkids.net/2015/03/26/march-25-interview-on-wwj-radio-detroit-every-kid-matters/
Recent “natural experiment” evidence for Head Start’s long-run effectiveness
A recently published paper on Head Start, by Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja, presents evidence that Head Start has sizable long-run behavioral benefits, compared to no preschool, even though cogni...
New Duke study of special education cost savings due to North Carolina’s Smart Start and More at Four programs
A newly published study by three well known researchers at Duke (Clara Muschkin, Helen Ladd, and Ken Dodge) finds that North Carolina’s early childhood programs significantly reduce special edu...
Anti-crime benefits of pre-K are another good rationale for broad public support for pre-K
Another important spillover benefit of high-quality pre-K is the effect of these programs on lowering subsequent crime rates of participants. As discussed in my new book, From Preschool to Prospe...
The pre-K controversy over teacher credentials: mixed evide...ograms tend to use certified teachers paid public school wages
My new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, includes a discussion of the controversy over whether pre-K programs get better results if they use credentialed teachers. The controversy arises becaus...
Pre-K quality: even slight improvements have large economic benefits, which justify even large costs to improve quality
One argument made in my new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, is that even slight improvements in preschool quality can be shown by the economic logic of educational investments to have large b...