PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Teresa Eckrich Sommer
AU  - Terri J. Sabol
AU  - Elise Chor
AU  - William Schneider
AU  - P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
AU  - Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
AU  - Mario L. Small
AU  - Christopher King
AU  - Hirokazu Yoshikawa
TI  - A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07
DP  - 2018 Feb 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 118--143
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118.full
AB  - 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.