Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
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- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 122 (1) , 159-208
- https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.122.1.159
Abstract
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office ofKeywords
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