PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Beck A. Taylor
AU  - Eric Dearing
AU  - Kathleen McCartney
TI  - Incomes and Outcomes in Early Childhood
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.4.980
DP  - 2004 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 980--1007
VI  - XXXIX
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/4/980.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/4/980.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2004 Oct 02; XXXIX
AB  - Prior research has identified statistically significant but small income effects for children’s cognitive, language, and social outcomes. We examine the impact of family economic resources on developmental outcomes in early childhood, the stage of life during which developmental psychologists have suggested income effects should be largest. Using participants from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, we estimate income effects that are comparable in absolute terms to those reported in previous research. Relative income effect sizes are found to have practical significance, however, both within our sample, and compared to participation in Early Head Start.