The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; University of Chicago; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12420
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: F28-F65
• 关键词: young-adult outcomes; gender-differences; smoking-cessation; UNITED-STATES; educational intervention; noncommunicable diseases; social experiments; sex-differences; program; stress

摘要

This article examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomisation with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favouring boys, although there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits, above and beyond the effects of experimentally enhanced adult socioeconomic status. These results show the potential of early life interventions for promoting health.