Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69409 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7087
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement trajectories suggests that such a program offered to low-income children would essentially eliminate the income-based gap at age three and between a third and three-quarters of the age-five and age-eight gaps.
Subjects: 
human capital
skill formation
education
early childhood
government policy
JEL: 
I2
J24
I3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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