Recent article in EER shows that parents respond to within-family differences in Head Start participation

A recent study authored by SEED lab member Katie Gonzalez in Economics of Education Review shows that parents compensate for differences in their children's access to Head Start. Using longitudinal data on families where some, but not all, siblings participated in Head Start, the study finds that parents provided more emotional support and cognitive stimulation to children who did not attend preschool relative to their siblings who attended Head Start. Read the full study here.