ReviewSSM - population health2021
Treatment effect heterogeneity in the head start impact study: A systematic review of study characteristics and findings.
Review in SSM - population health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Assessment of heterogeneous Head Start treatment effects on cognitive and social-emotional outcomes.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Settlement Duration Matters: Deportation Threat and Safety Net Participation Among Mixed-Status Families.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2025Article
- Do the Effects of Head Start Vary Across Time Based on Children's Exposure to Different Patterns of Childhood Adversity? Differential Intervention Effects Using Latent Profile Analysis and Time-varying Effect Modeling.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
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- News Media Coverage of Childcare: How U.S. Local TV News Framed the Problem Before and During the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of child and family studies · 2023Article
- Assessment of the predictive power of a causal variable: An application to the Head Start impact study.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Distributional effects on children's cognitive and social-emotional outcomes in the Head Start Impact Study: A quantile regression approach.SSM - population health · 2022Article
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Abstract
There have been consistent efforts to assess treatment effect heterogeneity (TEH) of Head Start using the data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), a randomized controlled trial of a federally funded child development program for a nationally representative sample of low-income parents and their 3- and 4-year-old children in the United States. Including 28 studies on TEH of Head Start, this review found that multiple high-risk subgroups (e.g., children with lower cognitive abilities, Spanish-speaking dual language learners) experienced larger gains across a range of developmental and parental outcomes, but mixed results for several subgroups. Most studies focused on subgroup analyses, cognitive and social-emotional outcomes, and short-term effects. Further studies on distributional effects, health and parental outcomes, and long-term effects are warranted. Finally, suggestions for future research on TEH of Head Start are discussed, which are applicable to other child development programs and policy evaluations.
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