A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy
| Autor: | Teresa Eckrich Sommer, Terri J. Sabol, Elise Chor, William Schneider, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Mario L. Small, Christopher King, Hirokazu Yoshikawa |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 118-143 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2377-8253 2377-8261 |
| DOI: | 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07 |
| Popis: | We propose a two-generation anti-poverty strategy to improve the economic fortunes of children in the United States. Our policy bridges two traditionally siloed interventions to boost their impacts: Head Start for children and career pathway training offered through community colleges for adults. We expect that an integrated two-generation human capital intervention will produce greater gains than either Head Start or community college alone for developmental and motivational, logistical and financial, social capital, and efficiency reasons. We suggest a competitive grant program to test and evaluate different models using federal dollars. We estimate average benefit-cost ratios across a range of promising career fields of 1.3 within five years and 7.9 within ten years if 10 percent of Head Start parents participate in two-generation programs. |
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