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Nobel-prize winning economist James Heckman’s New Research on Early Education – "The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program."

"What we’ve done is shown the benefits across two generations of the study of these enriched early child care programs," Nobel-prize winning economist James Heckman said in an interview with NPR. "Not only providing child care for working mothers — allowing them to get more education — but primarily to get more work experience, higher earnings gains through participating in the workforce, but also getting high-quality child care environments that turn out to be developmentally rich. It promotes social mobility within — and across — generations. That I think is an important finding of this study."

Heckman and his colleagues have just released these findings in a paper called "The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program." http://heckmanequation.org/content/resource/lifecycle-benefits-influential-early-childhood-program

by Alyssa Haywoode

Full Story: https://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2016/12/22/james-heckmans-new-research-on-early-education/

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Other coverage of this research includes:

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution’s Get Schooled blog http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2016/12/12/new-study-quality-birth-to-five-programs-for-at-risk-kids-pay-off/

Chicago Magazine’s story: "Why Pre-K Education Could Be One of the Best Ways to Reduce Crime," http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/December-2016/Early-Childhood-Education/

Education Dive’s "Should school districts play a larger role in birth-to-5 programs?" http://www.educationdive.com/news/should-school-districts-play-a-larger-role-in-birth-to-5-programs/432303/

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