How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings?: Evidence from Project STAR

Author(s): Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N.; Hilger, Nathaniel; Saez, Emmanuel; Schanzenbach, Diane; Yagan, Danny;
Date Issued: September 2010
Publisher(s): National Bureau of Economic Research
Description: A study of the impact of kindergarten classroom characteristics, such as class size, teacher experience, and classroom quality, on adult outcomes, including college attendance, earnings, home ownership, and marriage, based on data from participants in the Tennessee Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) experiment, who, along with their teachers, were randomly assigned to small or large classrooms in kindergarten through third grade
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Funder(s): United States. Internal Revenue Service. Statistics of Income Division ; Harvard University. Lab for Economic Applications and Policy ; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Equitable Growth ; National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Source: (NBER Working Paper Series No. 16381). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved September 30, 2010, from http://www.nber.org/papers/w16381.pdf
Topics: Child Care & Early Education Quality

Child Care & Early Education Market > Economic & Societal Impact

Programs, Interventions & Curricula > Programs > Kindergarten
Country: United States
States: TENNESSEE
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