Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34101 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2111
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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 of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and lasting discontinuity in Head Start funding rates at the OEO cutoff for grant-writing assistance. We find evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes that could be affected by Head Start, as well as suggestive evidence for a positive effect on educational attainment.
Subjects: 
early childhood education
poverty
schooling
health
Head Start
JEL: 
I18
I20
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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