Research Summary: The Jamaican Study

5/30/2014

Published in the journal Science on May 30, 2014, a study by Professor Heckman, UC Berkeley economist Paul Gertler, and fellow researchers at the University of Chicago, the University of the West Indies, the World Bank and the University of London finds that a high-quality early childhood intervention boosted the earnings of severely disadvantaged children in Jamaica by 25%. Read the full article as it appeared in Science here.

Source: The Heckman Equation

Available at: http://heckmanequation.org/content/resource/research-summary-jamaican-study

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