Investing in Early Childhood Development in Preschool and at Home

Duncan, Greg J.; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4098306

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“…"A tighter link between theory, econometric methods and data is essential to compare and reconcile the mixed and sometimes conflicting empirical results across studies, and to understand when and why the impacts of home environment and pre-school interventions fade out." (Duncan et al, 2023) The long-term impacts of educational interventions are crucial for assessing the costs and benefits of different investments in human capital development. An increasing number of rigorously evaluated randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated positive effects of early educational interventions (Alan et al, 2019;Burgess et al, 2021;Rege et al, 2021).…”

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“…However, few studies measure effects on skills after the end of the intervention period, and those that do indicate considerable fade-out (Bailey et al, 2020), which might suggest that early investments are ineffective in the long run. Yet, lack of skill measures that apply the same scale across multiple years of child development, lack of data on the typical development of children, and lack of combining theory and data on skill development have hindered proper assessments of fade-out (Duncan et al, 2023).…”

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Fade-Out of Educational Interventions: Statistical and Substantive Sources

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“…Early home learning activities like shared reading, counting objects and drawing shapes can contribute to children's learning and skill development (OECD, 2020 [32]; OECD, 2021 [1]; OECD, 2021 [1]; Duncan et al, 2022 [37]). Children who are more frequently read to by parents show higher levels of emergent literacy, for example (OECD, 2020 [32]).…”

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The OECD Papers on Well-being and Inequalities Series -managed by the OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) -features working papers on the measurement agenda for well-being, inclusion, sustainability and equal opportunity as well as papers seeking to deepen the understanding of the drivers of these issues, the ways in which they interact and how they evolve. These papers are prepared by OECD staff, external experts or by outside consultants working on OECD projects.This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language -English or French -with a summary in the other. This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.

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“…After comparing omnibus programs with multiple components, we isolate a central component of them that promotes child development: parenting. We move beyond the crude meta-analyses that dominate discussion in the recent literature (e.g., Duncan et al, 2022;Duncan and Magnuson, 2013). Those exercises compare programs that differ greatly in terms of target populations, interventions administered, and measures used to gauge success.…”

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