ArticleAnnual review of economics2023
Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations.
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- Social mobility and parenting: Testing associations in a prospective longitudinal cohort study.Child development · 2026Article
- A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning.The journal of political economy · 2025Article
- Association between the childhood rearing environment and general and specific psychopathology factors in middle adulthood: a Swedish National High-Risk Home-Reared versus Adopted-Away Sibling Comparison Study.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Education and Adult Cognition in a Low-Income Setting: Differences among Adult Siblings.Journal of human capital · 2025Article
- Innovameter: Agent-based modeling of innovation determinants in American and European countries.PloS one · 2025Article
- Childcare and Parenting in the Production of Early Life Skills.Economics of education review · 2024Article
- Unconditional Cash Transfers for Families with Children in the U.S.: A Scoping Review.Review of economics of the household · 2024Article
- The Dynastic Benefits of Early-Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers.Journal of human capital · 2024Article
- Piecing together the puzzle: A mixed methods study of the Abecedarian Intervention.Early childhood research quarterlyArticle
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Abstract
This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a template for rigorous syntheses and comparisons across programs. We analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare them with relatively low-cost more focused home-visiting programs. Successful interventions target both children and their caregivers. They engage caregivers and improve the home lives of children. They permanently boost cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Participants in programs that enrich home environments grow up with better skills, jobs, earnings, marital stability, and health, as well as reduced participation in crime. Long-run monetized gains are substantially greater than program costs for the iconic programs. We investigate the mechanisms promoting successful family lives for participants and report intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a crucial component of successful programs: they activate and promote parenting skills of child caregivers. The home-visiting programs we analyze produce outcomes comparable to those of the iconic omnibus programs. National implementation of the programs with long-run follow up that we analyze would substantially shrink the overall US Black-White earnings gap.
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