Are Head Start effects sustained?: A longitudinal follow-up comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool, and other preschool programs
A study of the sustained effects in kindergarten and first grade of Project Head Start for disadvantaged black children between 1969 and 1970 in two American cities
Reports & Papers
Assessing preschoolers' self-regulation in homes and classrooms: Lessons from the field
A pilot study of the Games As Measurement for Early Self-Control (GAMES) method for assessing preschool children’s ability to control their attention span and inhibitions, based on a sample of 71 children in a Head Start program
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Associations among family environment, sustained attention, and school readiness for low-income children
A study of sustained attention as a mediator of the relationship between family environment and school readiness, based on data from 1,046 low income children, with family environment data collected at 3-years-old and both attention and school readiness data collected at 5-years of age
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Background literature review pertaining to the Early Head Start study
An overview of the Early Head Start program model and of the relationship of early childhood program participation to children's school readiness outcomes
Other
Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families
An interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, analyzing child and family outcomes through the first two years of children's lives.
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Building their futures: How Early Head Start programs are enhancing the lives of infants and toddlers in low-income families: Summary report
A summary of findings from the interim report of the random assignment, impact evaluation of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project.
Executive Summary
Child care and children of color
A discussion of the United States Family Support Act of 1988 and the developmental impact of poverty and child care regulations on children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families
Other
Child care quality matters: How conclusions may vary with context
An analysis of three national studies on child care quality and the impact of quality on child development
Other
Child-care subsidies and school readiness in kindergarten
A study of associations between child care subsidy receipt when children are 4 years old and a range of academic and socioemotional school readiness outcomes in kindergarten, including reading and mathematics ability, externalizing and prosocial behavior, and approaches to learning, based on data from 1,400 children from subsidy-eligible families participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort
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Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: A unique research opportunity
A description of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data set and its importance and relevance to future studies in multiple disciplines
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Child welfare and mental health initiatives
An examination of three national, multi-site child welfare research initiatives: the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN), the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), and the Head Start Mental Health Research Consortium (HSMHRC)
Other
Conclusions and implications
A summary and discussion of implications from a special issue of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development focusing on the impacts of Early Head Start on child and family outcomes, including children's socioemotional and cognitive development and families' well-being and home environments, based on data for 3,001 randomly-assigned low income families
Other
Differential effects of high-quality child care
An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care
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Does the amount of participation in afterschool programs relate to developmental outcomes?: A review of the literature
A review of literature on the relationship between participation in after school programs and academic, behavioral, or socioemotional outcomes, based on 35 studies
Literature Review
Does Head Start work?: A 1-year follow-up comparison of disadvantaged children attending Head Start, no preschool, and other preschool programs
A comparison of cognitive outcomes among Head Start children, children without any preschool experience, and children enrolled in other preschool programs
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Does the neighborhood context alter the link between youth's after-school time activities and developmental outcomes? A multilevel analysis
A longitudinal analysis of the links between neighborhood characteristics and participation in after school activities, and anxiety/depression, delinquency, and substance use among a sample of 9- and 12-year-old youths, using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)
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Do you believe in magic?: What can we expect from early childhood intervention programs
A brief on the development of vulnerable children and the efficacy of early intervention program for altering their development
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Early child care initiatives
An overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care; the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes (CQO) Study; the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families; and the Growing Up in Poverty (GUP) Project
Other
Early childhood education: The likelihood of sustained effects
An overview of research on the effects of several early education programs on the cognitive, socioemotional, and academic skills of children in the elementary school years
Other
Early childhood intervention research initiatives
An evaluation of two early childhood interventions: the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), and the Early Head Start (EHS) Research and Evaluation Project
Other
Early intervention in low birth weight premature infants: Results at 18 years of age for the Infant Health and Development Program
Findings from a follow-up study on the persistence of cognitive and behavioral benefits from early childhood program participation in 18-year-olds who were born with low birth weight and participated in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)
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Economic deprivation and early childhood development
A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program
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Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program
A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants
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Effects of child care on psychological development: Issues and future directions for research
An overview of the opportunities for researching the effects of childcare on children's psychological development, highlighting the need for new methodologies to examine the complex relationships among quality of child care, the individual child's personality, and family variables
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The effects of early maternal employment on child cognitive development
A study of the effects on child cognitive development at age seven or eight of maternal labor force reentry during the first three years of life, controlling for factors such as child care use, based on mothers and their children in the nationally representative National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
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