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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
Volume 122, Issue 1, Pages 159-208Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.122.1.159
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This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and lasting discontinuity in Head Start funding rates at the OEO cutoff for grant-writing assistance. We find evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes that could be affected by Head Start, as well as suggestive evidence for a positive effect on educational attainment.
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