Taking Preschool Education Seriously as an Economic Development Program: Effects on Jobs and Earnings of State Residents Compared to Traditional Economic Development Programs


 

Publication Date: March 2006

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Author(s): Timothy J. Bartik

Research Area: Economics; Education; Labor

Keywords: state economic development program; employment and earnings; Preschool education; educational attainment

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This report takes preschool education seriously as a state economic development program by measuring the effects of a high-quality universal preschool program on the economic development goals of more jobs and earnings of state residents. Universal preschool's effects on state residents' jobs and earnings over a 75-year period are compared with the effects of a program of economic development subsidies to businesses of the same cost.