The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their Parents: Lessons for Policy and Programs

John M. Love, Ellen E. Kisker, Christine Ross, Helen Raikes, Jill Constantine, Kimberly Boller, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Louisa Banks Tarullo, Christy Brady-Smith, Allison Sidle Fuligni, Peter Z. Schochet, Diane Paulsell and Cheri Vogel

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Abstract: Early Head Start, a federal program begun in 1995 for low-income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers, was evaluated through a randomized trial of 3,001 families in 17 programs.

Keywords: early childhood development; poverty in early childhood; child policy and intervention; Head Start (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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