Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman has co-authored a new report on the long-term health benefits for participants in two seminal studies in early childhood intervention. The report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) looked at FPG’s Abecedarian Project and the Perry Preschool Project, exploring how both projects supported better health well into in adulthood.
According to the NBER report, treated participants in the Abecedarian Project were in better physical health in their mid-30s, compared to their untreated peers. Last year, the FPG project’s principal investigator during the later years,Frances A. Campbell, published a groundbreaking article in Science with Heckman and several colleagues determining that people who had received high-quality early care and education in the 1970s through the project were far healthier thirty years later—and that significant measures also indicated better health awaited them down the road.
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