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Speech
Educational attainment and economic outcomes
Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at the Boston Children's Museum's Early Childhood Summit 2013: Innovation and Opportunity, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, April 5, 2013.
Working Paper
When should children start school?
Kindergarten-entrance-age effects are difficult to identify due to the nonrandom allocation of entrance-age and simultaneous relative-age effects. This paper presents evidence that instrumental variable frameworks do not identify age effects for the youngest children of a cohort using the results of statistical tests for essential heterogeneity in initial enrollment decisions. Restricting attention to the oldest children in a cohort yields a sample with quasirandom variation in entrance and relative ages. This variation is used to identify the parameters of education production functions in ...
Journal Article
Babies, brains, and abilities : How early investments in education shape life outcomes
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2011/q4/feature4_weblinks.cfm
Journal Article
Laying the foundation
Researchers look for better ways to quantify the benefits of investment in early childhood development.
Journal Article
Key Ways to Grow Early Childhood Education Offerings in St. Louis
Discover the impact of the early childhood education system in St. Louis and methods of potential growth.
Speech
Early childhood education, economic development, and the business community
Remarks at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., October 22, 2009
Journal Article
An early childhood investment with a high public return
Discussion Paper
Early Childhood Education and the Economy
A child's first few years provide a strong foundation for future development. Early childhood education programs can increase future labor force productivity, decrease societal costs, and ultimately lead to a stronger economy.
Journal Article
Early education's big dividends: the better public investment
Public investments in projects like new stadiums never achieve returns equal to those from early childhood education?which several small studies have assessed at 7 percent to 20 percent. Now Minnesota is testing whether scaling up can produce the same results.
Journal Article
COVID-19’s Ongoing Effects on Early Childhood Education in St. Louis
What are the longstanding implications of the pandemic’s impact on the child care ecosystem in St. Louis?