TY - JOUR T1 - A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy JF - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences SP - 118 LP - 143 DO - 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07 VL - 4 IS - 3 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 Y1 - 2018/02/01 UR - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118.abstract N2 - 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. ER -