The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study

How Experience Gets Under the Skin to Create Gradients in Developmental Health

“…Finally, at the level of society, access to quality programs matters (83,88). Access includes the full range of child care, family support, and family strengthening programs; public health programs for high-risk children, vision, hearing, dental, and speech/language; and broader social safety net functions such as parental leave and housing programs.…”

An effectiveness‐based evaluation of five state pre‐kindergarten programs

“…The evidence is overwhelming that preschool programs can work to increase performance in the early school grades (Campbell & Ramey, 1994;McCarton et al, 1997;Reynolds & Temple, 1995;Weikart, Bond, & McNeil, 1978). Evidence also suggests that these programs can positively affect later high school graduation rates, labor force participation, stable household formation, and criminal behavior (Barnett, 1995;Campbell, Ramey, Pungello, Sparling, & Miller-Johnson, 2002;Currie, 1995;Ludwig & Miller, 2005;Schweinhart et al, 2005; for reviews, see Barnett, 1995; of this study is to model for readers how an RDD should be carried out to ensure that its assumptions are met.…”

Can universal pre-kindergarten programs improve population health and longevity? Mechanisms, evidence, and policy implications

“…Pre-kindergarten programs have both been shown to improve high school graduation rates and to improve health in ways that are highly likely to reduce premature death in adulthood (Campbell et al, 2014;Currie, 2001;Muennig et al, 2009;Palfrey et al, 2005;Reynolds et al, 2001;Schweinhart et al, 2005). In theory, pre-kindergarten programs could reduce the growing health disparities by educational attainment in the US, and therefore serve as a powerful policy lever for improving public health (Woolf et al, 2007).…”