RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 118
OP 143
DO 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07
VO 4
IS 3
A1 Teresa Eckrich Sommer
A1 Terri J. Sabol
A1 Elise Chor
A1 William Schneider
A1 P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
A1 Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
A1 Mario L. Small
A1 Christopher King
A1 Hirokazu Yoshikawa
YR 2018
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/4/3/118.abstract
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.