@article {Sommer118, author = {Teresa Eckrich Sommer and Terri J. Sabol and Elise Chor and William Schneider and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Mario L. Small and Christopher King and Hirokazu Yoshikawa}, title = {A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, pages = {118--143}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07}, publisher = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences}, abstract = {We propose a two-generation anti-poverty strategy to improve the economic fortunes of children in the United States. Our policy bridges two traditionally siloed interventions to boost their impacts: Head Start for children and career pathway training offered through community colleges for adults. We expect that an integrated two-generation human capital intervention will produce greater gains than either Head Start or community college alone for developmental and motivational, logistical and financial, social capital, and efficiency reasons. We suggest a competitive grant program to test and evaluate different models using federal dollars. We estimate average benefit-cost ratios across a range of promising career fields of 1.3 within five years and 7.9 within ten years if 10 percent of Head Start parents participate in two-generation programs.}, issn = {2377-8253}, URL = {https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118}, eprint = {https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118.full.pdf}, journal = {RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences} }