Investing Early: Taking Stock of Outcomes and Economic Returns from Early Childhood Programs

by Jill S Cannon and Jill S. Cannon

This report examines evaluations of early childhood programs that meet criteria for scientific rigor and synthesizes their results to better understand program outcomes, costs, and benefits. It focuses on programs serving children or parents of children from the prenatal period to age 5. The programs reviewed use approaches alone or in combination that include early care and education, home visiting, parent education, and government transfers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0833099205
• ISBN13: 9780833099204
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 322 Pages