Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School.

Dodge, KA

Bai, Y

Ladd, HF

Muschkin, CG

United States

2016-11-21T16:14:58Z

2016-11-17

North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four (MAF) early childhood programs were evaluated through the end of elementary school (age 11) by estimating the impact of state funding allocations to programs in each of 100 counties across 13 consecutive years on outcomes for all children in each county-year group (n = 1,004,571; 49% female; 61% non-Latinx White, 30% African American, 4% Latinx, 5% other). Student-level regression models with county and year fixed effects indicated significant positive impacts of each program on reading and math test scores and reductions in special education and grade retention in each grade. Effect sizes grew or held steady across years. Positive effects held for both high- and low-poverty families, suggesting spillover of effects to nonparticipating peers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27859011

1467-8624

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13015

eng

Wiley

Child Dev

10.1111/cdev.12645

Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School.

Journal article

Dodge, KA|0000-0001-5932-215X

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27859011

Center for Child and Family Policy

Duke

Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Duke Population Research Center

Duke Population Research Institute

Duke Science & Society

Initiatives

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Psychology and Neuroscience

Sanford School of Public Policy

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

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