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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
- Source :
- SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow- up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favoring boys, although there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits, above and beyond the effects of experimentally enhanced adult socioeconomic status. These results show the potential of early life interventions for promoting health.
- Subjects :
- jel:J13
jel:J24
jel:C93
jel:I12
050208 finance
jel:I13
Health, early childhood intervention, social experiments, randomized trial, Abecedarian Project, Perry Preschool Project
0502 economics and business
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health, early childhood intervention, social experiment, randomized trial, Abecedarian Project, Perry Preschool Project
jel:C12
050207 economics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15565068
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SSRN Electronic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b424b85b1714885f3f77013e6242683