TY  - JOUR
AU  - Garces,Eliana
AU  - Thomas,Duncan
AU  - Currie,Janet
TI  - Longer Term Effects of Head Start
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8054
PY  - 2000
Y2  - December 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8054
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8054.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Duncan Thomas
Department of Economics
Duke University
Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919/660-1803
Fax: 919/684-8974
E-Mail: d.thomas@duke.edu

Janet Currie
Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
Fax: 609-258-5974
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu
AB  - Little is known about the long-term effects of participation in Head Start. This paper draws on unique non-experimental data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of participation in Head Start on schooling attainment, earnings, and criminal behavior. Among whites, participation in Head Start is associated with a significantly increased probability of completing high school and attending college, and we find some evidence of elevated earnings in one's early twenties. African Americans who participated in Head Start are significantly less likely to have been charged or convicted of a crime. The evidence also suggests that there are positive spillovers from older children who attended Head Start to their younger siblings.
ER  -