Joining me today is Arthur Reynolds, director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. This is Research Developments, a podcast from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-the NICHD. A cost-benefit analysis showed that for every dollar spent on the program, $4 to $11 of economic benefits were seen over a child’s lifetime.įrom the National Institutes of Health, I’m Barrett Whitener. Among the benefits were higher educational attainment, lower rates of serious crime and incarceration, and lower rates of depression. Children from poor Chicago neighborhoods who graduated from an early childhood education program did far better than peers the same age who did not attend the program. Arthur Reynolds, Professor, Institute of Child Development and Co-Director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs and College of Education and Human Development.īarrett Whitener: Our guest today has shown over and over again that a comparatively small investment in children can have a substantial payoff when those children reach adulthood.
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