Human Capital Research Collaborative HCRC Fostering multidisciplinary research on human capital: Pre

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Human Capital Research Collaborative
(HCRC)Fostering multidisciplinary research on
human capital Prenatal development through young
adulthoodhumancapitalrc.orgArthur Reynolds
Art Rolnick,Co-DirectorsApril 27, 2009
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Mission

• Advance knowledge on the identification,
• understanding, and use of cost-
• effective programs, policies, and
• practices from prenatal development
• to early adulthood

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Partners

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• University of Minnesota
• Institute of Child Development
• Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
• CEED
• College of Education Human Dev

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Funders

• McKnight Foundation
• Graduate School Interdisciplinary Initiatives
• Consortium on Early Childhood Development
• Presidents Initiative on Children, Youth and
  Families
• NICHD

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Human Capital

• Enhancing Skills, Competencies, Preparation for
  Adult Well-Being
• ROI --efficiency of investments, programs to
  better prioritize
• Life Course Perspective

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Prevention

• Prevention Science focuses on the etiology,
  development, implemen-tation, and effectiveness
• Sustainable Programs and Services
• Ecological Framework

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Activities

• Conduct research and policy analyses
• Synthesize and integrate knowledge
• Disseminate findings
• Convene conferences and workshops
• Develop longitudinal data archives
• Collaborate with Consortium on ECD
• on cross-study projects
• Identify what works evidence
• Provide technical assistance

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Areas of Focus

• Predictors and processes of well-being
• (education, health, social, economic)
• Family and community influences
• Program design, modification
• Implementation
• Effectiveness cost-effectiveness
• Policy and translational research
• Methodology and Analysis

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• Volume Human Capital Series
• Cost-effective Programs and Services
• In Childrens First Decade
• Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press

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Early Childhood Programs

• Nutrition
• Home Visitation
• Birth to 3 interventions (Early Head Start)
• Child care and early education
• State-funded Prekindergarten
• Head Start and related Federal Programs
• Kindergarten
• Small classes in the early grades
• PK-3 programs and practices

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Steering Committee

• Arthur Reynolds, Co-Director ICD
• Art Rolnick, Co-Director Minneapolis FED
• Judy Temple, Humphrey Applied Econ.
• Rob Grunewald, Minneapolis FED
• Michelle Englund, HCRC and ICD
• Suh-Ruu Ou, ICD and HCRC

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Affiliates

• Institute of Child Development
• Dante Cicchetti
• Nicki Crick
• Byron Egeland
• Ann Masten
• Rich Weinberg
• Applied Economics
• Elton Mykerezi, Applied Economics
• Elizabeth Davis, Applied Economics

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• Educational Psychology
• Scott McConnell
• Jeff Long
• Tony Pellegrini
• Humphrey Institute
• Morris Kleiner
• Deborah Levison
• CEED
• Amy Susman-Stillman
• Karen Cadigan

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• Carlson School of Management
• Connie Wanberg
• Aaron Sojourner
• Department of Family Medicine CH
• Susie Nanney
• Minneapolis FED
• Terry Fitzgerald
• Donald Hirasuna
• Richard Todd
• Center for Excellence in Childrens MH

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National Advisory Committee
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Examples of Completed and On-going Projects

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1. Maltreatment prevention review2. CBA
research synthesis, prenatal to age 93. Early
education and adult well-being4. Predictors of
educational attainment5. 3-study paths of
influence to adulthood6. Impacts of
preschool-to-grade 3 services7. Effects of food
assistance and insecurity
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1. Child maltreatment prevention, birth to
515 studies of 14 programs,1990-2007
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Group Differences in 7 Studies

• Program Prog Comp Age
• HF-New York 5.1 4.8 Prenatal
• HF-Alaska 16 17 Prenatal
• Hawaii HS 1.1 1.5 Birth
• NFP 24.0 32.0 Prenatal
• Teen PAT 0.0 2.4 Birth
• Prenatal PHS 9.2 6.6 Prenatal
• CPC 7.8 14.7 3 years

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2. ECD Review, Prenatal to 917
CBAs from 16 programs1 study per program
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Return per Dollar Invested by Age of Entry into
Intervention
Prenatal to Age 3
Preschool
Early School-age
Prenatal to Age 3
Preschool
Early School-age
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• 3. Early Education and Poverty Prevention
• Head Start will
• rescue these children from the poverty which
  could otherwise pursue them all their lives. The
  project is designed to put them on an even
  footing with their classmates as they enter
  school.
• (Pres. Johnson, May 1965)

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CPC Preschool and Well-Being

• Prog Comp Diff
• Skilled job 28.2 21.4 6.8
• at age 24
• 2 years, 15.8 19.7 -3.9
• Food Stamps
• Felony arrest 16.5 21.1 -4.6

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4. Predictors of educational
attainment Ou Reynolds, 2008
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5. Age 5-15 factors that account for
the early ed-- attain link from 3
extensive longitudinal studies
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Percent Reduction in Effects on Years of Ed
Linked to 5 Factors
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6. Impact of PK-3 services in the Child-Parent
Centers and other programs
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7. Healthy Food, Healthy Lives Institute
project Effects of federal food assistance
programs and food insecurity in the ECLS-Birth
Cohort
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Promoting Child Health Well-being,
Birth-Age 5Child health and school readiness
from the U. S. Early Childhood Longitudinal
Study, Judy Temple, Humphrey InstituteChanging
beliefs and knowledge of child-care providers
The Ounce Research Project, Amy Susman-Stillman,
CEEDProspective longitudinal examination of
early child maltreatment and adult health in the
Minnesota Longitudinal Study, Michelle Englund,
HCRC and ICD1 year of preschool or 2 in the
Child-Parent Centers Does it matter?, Irma
Arteaga, Dept. of Applied Economics