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  title info:
    title: Investing in our children
    sub title: what we know and don't know about the costs and benefits of early childhood interventions
  name:
    name part: Karoly, Lynn A.
    name part: 1961-
  name:
    name part: California Wellness Foundation
  name:
    name part: Criminal Justice Program (Rand Corporation)
  name:
    name part: Labor and Population Program
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 159 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: There is increasing evidence that the first few years after birth are particularly important in child development and present opportunities for enrichment but also vulnerabilities do to poverty and other social stressors. Elected officials have begun proposing potentially costly programs to intervene early in the lives of disadvantaged children. Have such interventions been demonstrated to yield substantial benefits? To what extent might they pay for themselves through lower welfare and criminal justice costs incurred by participating children as they grow into adults? This study synthesizes the results of a number of previous evaluations in an effort to answer those questions. Conclusions are that under carefully controlled conditions, early childhood interventions can yield substantial advantages to recipients in terms of emotional and cognitive development, education, economic well-being, and health. (The latter two benefits apply to the children's families as well.) If these interventions can be duplicated on a large scale, the costs of the programs could be exceeded by subsequent savings to the government. However, the more carefully the interventions are targeted to children most likely to benefit, the more likely it is that savings will exceed costs. Unfortunately, these conclusions rest on only a few methodologically sound studies. The authors argue for broader demonstrations accompanied by rigorous evaluations to resolve several important unknowns. These include the most efficient ways to design and target programs, the extent to which effectiveness is lost on scale-up, and the implications of welfare reform and other "safety net" changes.
  table of contents: Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Targeted Early Intervention Programs and their Benefits -- Ch. 3. Comparing Costs, Savings, and Benefits -- Ch. 4. Issues Relevant to Investment Decisions -- App. A. Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of the Elmira Prenatal/Early Infancy Project -- App. B. Calculation of the Costs and Benefits of the Perry Preschool.
  note: Lynn A. Karoly [and others].
  note: "Funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Children with social disabilities
    topic: Services for
    geographic: United States
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Children with social disabilities
    topic: Services for
    geographic: United States
    topic: Costs
  subject:
    topic: Child welfare
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Social Services & Welfare
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Social Security
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION
    topic: General
  classification: HV741 .I66 1998eb
  classification: 362.7/0973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Investing in our children
    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 1998
    identifier: (DLC) 98017261
    identifier: (OCoLC)38765126
  identifier: 0585361398
  identifier: 9780585361390
  identifier: 9780833043269
  identifier: 0833043269
  identifier: 0833025309
  identifier: 9780833025302
  identifier: 22573/cttd56f JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 010329
    record change date: 20260728172641.6
    record identifier: in00003894571
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng