%0 Report
        %A Conti, Gabriella
%A Heckman, James J.
%A Pinto, Rodrigo
        %T The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9247
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9247
        %X This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favoring boys, although there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits, above and beyond the effects of experimentally enhanced adult socioeconomic status. These results show the potential of early life interventions for promoting health.
        %K Abecedarian Project
%K randomized trial
%K social experiment
%K early childhood intervention
%K health
%K Perry Preschool Project