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Author: Sabol, Terri J.
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1. Sabol, Terri J.
Does Increased Investment in Parents' Human Capital Relate to Changes in Investment in Early Education Quality?
Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Children, Preschool; Children, Well-Being; Geocoded Data; Head Start; Human Capital; Parental Influences; Training

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Administrative data for this study come from Head Start Program Information Reports (PIR), which are mandatory, agency-level, annual surveys. We include all agencies from 2002-2014, which results in approximately 2,700 Head Start grantees/agencies with a total of around 37,000 program-by-year observations. We will also link the PIR data to the National Longitudinal Survey 1979 using FIPS county code to attain parent and child outcomes. A similar approach was employed by Currie & Neidell (2007) and resulted in a sample of approximately 880 children who attended Head Start that matched to the PIR data.

We first characterize trends in parent services versus child services in Head Start over the past decade by conducting mean-level difference tests at the national level in each year. For parents, we focus primarily on programming that directly targets their skill development, including adult education, job training, English as a Second Language training, and parenting education. For children we focus on ECE quality, including staff-child ratios, staff qualifications, and teacher salaries

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Sabol, Terri J. "Does Increased Investment in Parents' Human Capital Relate to Changes in Investment in Early Education Quality?." Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016.