Analyzing the Impacts of Two Influential Early Childhood Programs on Participants through Midlife

分析两个有影响力的幼儿计划对参与者到中年的影响

• 批准号: 9346633
• 负责人: MARGARET RUTH BURCHINAL
• 金额: $ 63.73万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9346633
• 关键词: Address; Adult; African American; Age; Cardiac; Child; Childhood; Cognition; Control Groups; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Costs and Benefits; Crime; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Data Reporting; Data Set; Disadvantaged; Economics; Education; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Emotional; Employment; Enrollment; Growth; Health; Health and Retirement Study; Health behavior; Income; Indium-111; Individual; Influentials; Intervention; Life Cycle Stages; Life Experience; Measurement; Measures; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Medical; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Meta-Analysis; Metabolic; Methodology; Methods; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Personality; Physiological; Population; Procedures; Process; Protocols documentation; Randomized; Risk Factors; Sampling; Shapes; Social Work; Societies; Source; Space Models; Structure; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Update; Work; cognitive skill; early childhood; emerging adult; executive function; experimental study; follow-up; frontier; health assessment; health data; improved; intervention cost; member; middle age; physical conditioning; programs; skills; social; treatment effect; young adult

Project Summary: This proposal seeks support for an interdisciplinary team to collect and analyze data to estimate the impacts on participants through midlife, and the impacts on their children, of the two most influential early childhood education programs: the HighScope Perry Preschool Program (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). Both programs targeted disadvantaged, predominantly African-American children. Evidence from these programs is the cornerstone of wide-scale initiatives for pre-kindergarten programs around the world. Both programs were evaluated by RCTs and have, by far, the longest follow-ups of any experimentally evaluated early childhood programs (PPP through age 40; ABC through age 34). These programs are influential because they have long-term follow-ups that show persistent beneficial effects through young adulthood. We are in the final stages of completing a NIH-supported follow-up survey of PPP at age 50. We seek support to conduct a similar follow-up for ABC through age 45. The proposed study will collect data in the format used in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is also being used in collecting the data for the PPP at 50 study. Both studies will include measurements of (i) physical and mental health, including metabolic and cardiac risk factors, and depression; (ii) income and employment; (iii) cognitive skills and executive functioning; (iv) noncognitive skills, including grit and perseverance among other personality measures; and (v) education and health outcomes of participants’ children. For both interventions, we will have self-reported and administrative data on earnings, employment, use of social services, criminal activity, and self- reported and direct assessments of health and cognition. We also seek support to analyze the PPP and ABC data using the same methods. Our analyses of PPP and ABC will account for (a) their small samples; (b) departures from initial randomization protocols; (c) the effects of testing multiple hypotheses on true p-values; (d) non-random attrition; and (e) contamination bias that arises when control groups use alternative forms of early childcare. We will analyze both data sets using a variety of different longitudinal approaches. We will (i) conduct dynamic mediation analyses to explain the sources of treatment effects; (ii) relate experimental estimates to the non- experimental estimates of the processes of skill formation for comparable populations; (iii) use the experimental data in conjunction with non-experimental data to assess the validity of commonly used short-term indicators utilized to predict long-term outcomes in more recently launched interventions lacking long-term follow-up. In addition, we will combine experimental data and comparable non-experimental data to conduct rate of return and cost-benefit analyses that account for the full array of benefits and costs of the interventions, projecting the out-of-sample benefits for treatments and controls. All data sets will be made publicly available at the completion of the project.

项目摘要： 该建议寻求支持一个跨学科团队来收集和分析数据以估算 通过中年对参与者的影响，以及对孩子的影响最大的影响 有影响力的幼儿教育计划：高档佩里学前班计划（PPP） 和卡罗来纳州的临时项目（ABC）。两个计划都针对灾难， 主要是非裔美国儿童。这些程序的证据是 全球幼儿园计划的大规模倡议。这两个程序都是 通过RCT进行评估，并具有任何实验评估的最长随访 童年计划（PPP至40岁； ABC至34岁）。这些程序具有影响力 因为它们有长期的随访，可以通过年轻人表现出持续的有益作用 成年。我们处于完成NIH支持的PPP的后续调查的最后阶段 年龄50岁。我们寻求支持对ABC到45岁的ABC进行类似的随访。提议 研究将以健康和退休研究（HRS）中使用的格式收集数据，这也是 用于在50研究中收集PPP的数据。两项研究都将包括测量 （i）身体和心理健康，包括代谢和心脏危险因素以及抑郁症； （ii） 收入和就业； （iii）认知技能和执行功能； （iv）非认知技能， 包括毅力和毅力以及其他人格措施； （v）教育与健康 参与者的孩子的结果。对于这两种干预措施，我们都会自我报告，并且 有关收入，就业，使用社会服务，犯罪活动和自我的行政数据 报告和直接评估健康和认知。我们还寻求支持来分析 PPP和ABC数据使用相同的方法。我们对PPP和ABC的分析将考虑（a） 他们的小样本； （b）偏离初始随机协议； （c）测试的影响 关于真实p值的多个假设； （d）非随机属性； （e）污染偏见 当对照组使用替代形式的早期育儿形式时就会出现。我们将分析两个数据 使用各种不同的纵向方法进行集合。我们将（i）进行动态调解 分析以解释治疗效果的来源； （ii）将实验估计与非 - 对可比人群的技能形成过程的实验估计； （iii）使用 实验数据与非实验数据一起评估了 通常，通常使用的短期指标用于预测长期结果 缺乏长期随访的启动干预措施。此外，我们将结合实验数据 以及可比的非实验数据，以进行回报率和成本效益分析的速度 解释干预措施的全部福利和成本，预测样本外 治疗和控制的好处。所有数据集将在完成时公开可用 项目。