The Impact of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills

Jin Zhou, Bei Liu () and Lu Mai ()
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Bei Liu: China Development Research Foundation
Lu Mai: China Development Research Foundation
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: James J. Heckman

No 2020-047, Working Papers from Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

Abstract: This paper develops a new framework for estimating the causal impacts on child skills and the mechanisms producing these impacts using data from a randomized control study of a widely evaluated early-childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating the program at scale. We report estimates from standard procedures for reporting treatment effects as unweighted averages item scores and compare them with estimates adjusting for item difficulties. Such adjustments produce more interpretable estimates. We go beyond treatment effects and estimate individual-specific latent skills, comparing treatment and control skills and their impacts on test scores.

Keywords: experiment; scaling; mechanisms; home visiting; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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http://humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wpaper/Heckma ... ls-home-visiting.pdf First version, June 3, 2020 (application/pdf)
http://humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wpaper/Heckma ... siting-on-skills.pdf Second version, January 2, 2024 (application/pdf)
http://cehd.uchicago.edu/china-reach_home-visiting_appendix Web Appendix (application/pdf)

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Working Paper: The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills (2022)
Working Paper: The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills (2020)
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