Poster #13 - Adult Health and Early Education: Age 37 Impacts and Economic Benefits of the Child-Parent Center Intervention

• In Event: 35.081 - MTCC Poster Session Eight
  In Poster Session: 35.081-2 - Early Childhood Poster Session 2

Abstract

Publicly-funded preschool programs are growing in terms of the number of districts and states offering programs and as a share of total government spending on education. In this paper, we examine recently-collected survey responses from a cohort of adults studied as part of the Chicago Longitudinal Study of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers (CPC). Previous studies have reported long-term effects into adulthood of participation in the CPCs, which are a high-quality preschool through third grade intervention offered in high-poverty neighborhoods in the Chicago Public Schools. We report new evidence of program effectiveness as of age 37 on health outcomes including smoking, obesity, and depression. We also present a comparison of health benefits versus intervention costs as a partial cost-benefit analyses.

Authors

• Judy Temple, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Arthur J. Reynolds, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Nishank Varshney, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Suh-Ruu Ou, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Nicole Smerillo, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities