Early Childhood Education

This research was supported in part by the American Bar Foundation, the Pritzker Children's Initiative, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, NIH grants NICHD R37HD065072, NICHD R01HD54702, and NIA R24AG048081, an anonymous funder, Successful Pathways from School to Work, an initiative of the University of Chicago's Committee on Education funded by the Hymen Milgrom Supporting Organization, a grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) supporting the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO)|an initiative of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) and Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (BFI). We are very grateful to Joshua Ka Chun Shea for data managing, research assistance, and useful comments. We also thank Marianne Haramoto, Sylvi Kuperman, Ana Paula Melo, Jack Schmerold, Haonan Zhou, and Anna Ziff for research assistance. Carey Cheng, Fernanda Diaz de la Vega, Sindhu Gnanasambandan, and Damini Sharma helped us improve this draft with useful comments. We thank Robert Moffit, David Blau, the other authors of this volume, and authors of papers cited within this chapter for valuable comments and insights. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funders or persons named here or the official views of the National Institutes of Health.