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The authors find that well-targeted early intervention programs for at-risk children, such as nurse home visits to first-time mothers and high-quality preschool education, can yield substantial advantages to participants in terms of emotional and cognitive development, education, economic well-being and health.
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Investing in Our Children : What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
author
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Karoly, Lynn A.
publisher
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RAND
isbn10 | asin
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0833025309
print isbn13
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9780833025302
ebook isbn13
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9780585361390
language
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English
subject
Socially handicapped children--Services for--United States--Evaluation, Socially handicapped children--Services for--United States--Costs, Child welfare--United States, Public welfare--United States.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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HV741.I66 1998eb
ddc
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362.7/0973
subject
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Socially handicapped children--Services for--United States--Evaluation, Socially handicapped children--Services for--United States--Costs, Child welfare--United States, Public welfare--United States.
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Investing In Our Children
What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
Lynn A. Karoly Peter W. Greenwood Susan S. Everingham Jill Houb M. Rebecca Kilburn C/ Peter Rydell Matthew Sanders James Chiesa
Funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation
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The research described in this report was supported by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation
ISBN: 0-8330-2530-9
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Preface
Around the beginning of 1997, RAND was approached by the "I Am Your Child" Early Childhood Public Engagement Campaign to conduct an independent, objective review of the scientific evidence available on early childhood interventions. "Early childhood interventions" were defined as attempts by government agencies or other organizations to improve child health and development, educational attainment, and economic well-being. The aim was to quantify the benefits of these programs to children, their parents, and society at large. Funding for the project was secured from The California Wellness Foundation.
RAND's Criminal Justice Program and Labor and Population Program established an interdisciplinary research team including two economists, a criminologist, two mathematical modelers, and a developmental pediatrician. As the project evolved, it became convenient to separate the benefits being examined into two large categories: benefits to the children and parents participating in the programs, and benefits by way of eventual savings to the government (and therefore society in general) from reduced levels of social-service expenditures on participants following the end of the programs. For ease of reference, the first class is typically called "benefits" in this report and the second class, "savings." Savings are compared with program costs.
This study was one of Peter Rydell's last projects at RAND. Peter, who was largely responsible for Chapter Three, died in October 1997. Peter's clear, rigorous approach to the analysis of societal costs,
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benefits, and savings was a hallmark of RAND research in multiple areas of public policy concern over a period of almost 30 years. His insight, optimism, and generosity have been an inspiration to us all.
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Contents
Figures
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Tables
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Summary
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter One Introduction
1
The Importance of Early Childhood
2
What Is Early Intervention?
4
Goals and Approach of This Study
7
Organization of This Report
9
Chapter Two Targeted Early Intervention Programs and Their Benefits
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