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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education

Authors: Christopher J. Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel

This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined to sub-groups, or because leave entitlements were sufficiently long, even before recent extensions, to yield most potential benefits. 

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A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (Fifth Edition) by Eric M. Patashnik and Eugene Bardach, University of California, Berkeley

A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (Fifth Edition)

Authors: Eric M. Patashnik, Eugene Bardach, University of California, Berkeley

In the Fifth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Eugene Bardach and new co-author Eric Patashnik draw on more than 40 years of experience teaching students to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. This bestselling handbook presents dozens of concrete tips, interesting case studies, and step-by-step strategies that are easily applicable for the budding analyst as well as the seasoned professional.

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Who am I? Beyond "I think, therefore I am."

Authors: Timothy Wilson, A. Voorhoeve, E. During, D. Jopling, F. Kamm

Can we ever truly answer the question, “Who am I?” Moderated by Alex Voorhoeve (London School of Economics), neuro-philosopher Elie During (University of Paris, Ouest Nanterre), cognitive scientist David Jopling (York University, Canada), social psychologist Timothy Wilson (University of Virginia), and ethicist Frances Kamm (Harvard University) examine the difficulty of achieving genuine self-knowledge and how the pursuit of self-knowledge plays a role in shaping the self.

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Redirect by Timothy Wilson

Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change

Authors: Timothy Wilson

What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager’s behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education? Well, there is no such magic pill-but there is a new scientifically based approach called story editing that can accomplish all of this.

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Education

Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?

Authors: Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, Douglas Miller, Martha Bailey, Sheldon Danziger

Head Start is a federal early childhood intervention designed to reduce disparities in preschool outcomes. The first randomized experimental study of Head Start, the National Head Start Impact Study (NHSIS), found impacts on academic outcomes of .15 to .3 standard deviations measured at the end of the program year, although the estimated impacts were no longer significant when measured at the end of kindergarten or first grade.

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