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Author: Richards, Jonathan Brent
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1. Richards, Jonathan Brent
Three Essays on Noncognitive Skills and Youth Education and Labor Outcomes
Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2013
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: The Ohio State University
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Head Start; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Noncognitive Skills; Parental Investments

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In my third paper, I look at whether children who participate in Head Start have better scores on the Antisocial sub-scale of the Behavior Problems Index (or BPI), a scale measuring problem behavior in children. I use CNLSY data from the USA. Like other papers in the Head Start literature, such as Currie and Thomas (1995), I control for family fixed effects to deal with unobserved household-level heterogeneity that could influence whether a child attends Head Start. Unlike Carneiro and Ginja (2008), I control for measures of parental investment during Head Start. I also look at levels of antisocial behavior shortly after attending Head Start, while they look at outcomes when the child is in their pre-teen or teen years. Unlike Carneiro and Ginja, I find evidence that Head Start participation raises a child’s level of antisocial behavior.
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Richards, Jonathan Brent. Three Essays on Noncognitive Skills and Youth Education and Labor Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2013.