Journal Article
Shared services: strengthening early care and education
Stoney, Louise; Poppick, Naman Libbie (2010-10)
Early learning lasts a lifetime. We now have a strong body of evidence that learning is especially significant in the first five years of life and affects brain architecture for years to come.1 That?s why high-quality early care and education (ECE) is vital for children?s academic and social success.2 And given that more than 60 percent of U.S. mothers of children younger than 5 years old are working and that 73 percent of those children are regularly in child care, making sure that ECE is a healthy, sustainable industry delivering high-quality services is critical for the nation.
Communities and Banking , Issue Fall , Pages 19-21

Journal Article
An early childhood investment with a high public return
Rolnick, Arthur J.; Grunewald, Rob (2010-07)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul , Pages 12-13

Journal Article
Babies, brains, and abilities : How early investments in education shape life outcomes
Nash, Betty Joyce (2011-10)
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2011/q4/feature4_weblinks.cfm
Econ Focus , Volume 15 , Issue 4Q , Pages 29-33

Speech
Educational attainment and economic outcomes
Rosengren, Eric S. (2013)
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.
Speech , Paper 69

Working Paper
When should children start school?
Aliprantis, Dionissi (2012)
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 ...
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 1126

Journal Article
Laying the foundation
Cobb, Kathy (2008-06)
Researchers look for better ways to quantify the benefits of investment in early childhood development.
The Region , Volume 22 , Issue Jun , Pages 28-32

Newsletter
Early childhood education
Martinek, Christopher J. (2009-10)
Which public investment offers greater returns?a subsidy for a sports stadium or early childhood education? It might surprise some, but the answer is an investment in early childhood education. A research study from the Federal Reserve found a 16 percent return on such an investment, with 80 percent of the return going to the general public. The October 2009 Newsletter explains the lifelong benefits of early childhood education.
Liber8 Economic Information Newsletter , Issue Oct

Speech
Early childhood education, economic development, and the business community
Lockhart, Dennis P. (2009)
Remarks at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., October 22, 2009
Speech , Paper 1

Journal Article
Early education's big dividends: the better public investment
Rolnick, Arthur J.; Grunewald, Rob (2008-04)
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.
Communities and Banking , Issue Spr , Pages 3-5