Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program

Jorge Luis Garcia (), James Heckman and Anna L. Ziff

European Economic Review, 2018, vol. 109, issue C, 9-22

Abstract: This paper studies the life-cycle impacts of a widely emulated high-quality, intensive early childhood program with long-term follow up. The program starts early in life (at 8 weeks of age) and is evaluated by an RCT. There are multiple treatment effects which we summarize through interpretable aggregates. Girls have a greater number of statistically significant treatment effects than boys and effect sizes for them are generally bigger. The source of this difference is worse home environments for girls with greater scope for improvement by the program. Fathers of sons support their families more than fathers of daughters.

Keywords: Gender differences; Childcare; Early childhood education; Randomized trials; Substitution bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.06.009

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