Episode 1: Chloe Gibbs on the intergenerational effects of Head Start

Chloe Gibbs talks about the intergenerational effects of Head Start on criminal behavior.

“Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood” by Andrew Barr and Chloe R. Gibbs.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour” by Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman, and Rodrigo Pinto.

• “Adult outcomes as a function of an early childhood educational program: An Abecedarian Project follow-up” by Frances A. Campbell, Elizabeth P. Pungello, Margaret Burchinal, Kirsten Kainz, Yi Pan, Barbara H. Wasik, Oscar A. Barbarin, Joseph J. Sparling, and Craig T. Ramey.

• “Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health” by Frances Campbell, Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Elizabeth Pungello, and Yi Pan.

• “The rate of return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program” by James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Yavitz.

• “Longer-Term Effects of Head Start” by Eliana Garces, Duncan Thomas, and Janet Currie.

• “Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start” by Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja.

• “Head Start’s Long-Run Impact: Evidence from the Program’s Introduction” by Owen Thompson.

• “Reducing Inequality through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” by Rucker C. Johnson and C. Kirabo Jackson.

• “Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings” by Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti.

• “Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes” by Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. 

• “Can targeted transfers improve birth outcomes?: Evidence from the introduction of the WIC program” by Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Page, and Ann Huff Stevens.

• “Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design” by Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller.

• “Long-Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net” by Hilary Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Douglas Almond.

• “Early Childhood Intervention and Life-Cycle Skill Development: Evidence from Head Start” by David Deming.

• “Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes” by James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, and Peter Savelyev.

• “Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills” by Christina Weiland and Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

• “What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention” by Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst.

• “Intergenerational Human Capital Spillovers: Indonesia’s school construction and its effects on the next generation” by Bhashkar Mazumder, Maria Rosales-Rueda, and Margaret Triyana.

• “Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health” by Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page, and Laura R. Wherry.