%0 Report
        %A Dougan, William
%A García, Jorge Luis
%A Polovnikov, Illia
        %T High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale: Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16442
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16442
        %X We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18 non-cognitive skills were comparable to those of the Perry Preschool and Carolina Abecedarian Projects, supporting those programs' scalability. For twins, however, the program generated smaller positive short-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A household production model suggests that the possibility of jointly supplying parenting to twins helps explain those differences.
        %K childcare
%K early childhood education
%K large-scale randomized trial
%K parental investment
%K parenting