Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245626 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14575
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting inter-generational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group across the life cycle, which translates into better family environments for the second generation leading to positive intergenerational gains. There are long-lasting beneficial program effects on cognition through age 54, contradicting claims of fadeout that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first-generation control group.
Subjects: 
early childhood education
intergenerational mobility
racial inequality
social mobility
JEL: 
J13
I28
C93
H43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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