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The economic case for expanding preschool education for disadvantaged children is largely based on evidence from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children in the early 1960s. In that program, children were randomly assigned to treatment and control group status and have been systematically followed through age 40. Information …
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People who are unhealthy earn lower incomes, put away fewer dollars in savings, and accumulate less wealth over the years compared to those who are healthy, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. The research, conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, …