Search Results
Title: Select Works on the Economics of Education
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Lukes, Dylan J. |
|
Select Works on the Economics of Education Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Education, Harvard University, 2022 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Educational Attainment; Head Start; Skill Formation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation comprises three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay studies the short and long-run effects of Head Start, a federally funded early childhood education program that targets children from low-income families. This research replicates and extends previous evaluations of Head Start's impact on life cycle skill formation. My co-authors and I find primarily negative impacts of Head Start for more recent birth cohorts and null impacts of Head Start on school-age and early adulthood outcomes for all birth cohorts. Unpacking these results, we show that factors unrelated to Head Start, such as the mother's age at their child's birth, likely play an important role in mediating Head Start impacts across time. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Lukes, Dylan J. Select Works on the Economics of Education. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Education, Harvard University, 2022. |