Early Childhood Research
Collaborative
Sponsored by the Center for Early Education and Development at the University of Minnesota and
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fostering multidisciplinary research on
  early childhood development

Discussion Paper Series

Discussion Paper 111
Issued February 2007

 

 

Child Interventions That May Lead to Increased Economic Growth

Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nathan Tefft, University of Wisconsin-Madison

ABSTRACT

In this paper we seek to identify those childhood interventions that show real promise of positively influencing children's human capital accumulation. Next we explore the quality of existing research on these interventions; establish a set of quality standards that can be applied to evaluations of childhood interventions and finally focus on the extent to which research can link the interventions to economic growth.

Barbara Wolfe
University of Wisconsin
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53726-1393
wolfe@lafollette.wisc.edu

Nathan Tefft
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
nwtefft@wisc.edu

The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Early Childhood Research Collaborative.

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