Head Start, Four Years After Completing the Program

Young-Joo Kim ()
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Young-Joo Kim: Kingston University London, Postal: School of Economics, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, London, , United Kingdom, KT1 2EE

No 2010-1, Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, Kingston University London

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of the Head Start program on children's achievements in reading and math tests during their first 4 years of schooling after completing the program. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS), I examine reading and math test scores in kindergarten, first grade and third grade years. With matching estimation, I find that black children make modest progress towards the third grade by attending Head Start, whereas white and Hispanic children do not seem to gain from attending the program. Moreover, with Head Start verification data from ECLS-K, it is found that there are large measurement errors in the parental report on their children's Head Start attendance and this is large enough to affect the inference about the effect of Head Start.

Keywords: Head Start; selection bias; matching; measurement error (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-03-08
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