Three Essays on Using Economic Evaluations for Scaling Up Early Childhood Education and Development Programs
2023-05
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Three Essays on Using Economic Evaluations for Scaling Up Early Childhood Education and Development Programs
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Despite growing evidence about the significance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs, public investment has been relatively low, resulting in slower expansion of evidence-based ECD programs. This dissertation consists of three essays on conducting and using economic evaluation methods to scale up early childhood education and development programs. Specifically, I conduct a benefit-cost analysis of the Chicago Child-Parent Center (CPC) preschool program, with a focus on health outcomes in mid-adulthood. Further, I analyze the costs of implementing the expansion of the CPC program to four districts in the Midwestern US. I discuss the costs required to scale up an evidence-based high-quality preschool program with a focus on estimating the marginal costs of each of the program’s six quality elements. Finally, I review the existing economic evaluations of Nurse-Family Partnership Home Visiting programs and suggest two innovative financial mechanisms – Pay for Success (PFS) and Data-Driven Philanthropy that can be used to expand access to home-visiting programs by leveraging public-private partnerships.
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2023. Major: Public Affairs. Advisor: Judy Temple. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 146 pages.
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Varshney, Nishank. (2023). Three Essays on Using Economic Evaluations for Scaling Up Early Childhood Education and Development Programs. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/258679.
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