TY - JOUR
T1 - Three-Year Outcomes for Low-Income Parents of Young Children in a Two-Generation Education Program
AU - Chor, Elise
AU - Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
AU - Sommer, Teresa Eckrich
AU - Sabol, Terri
AU - Tighe, Lauren
AU - Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
AU - Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
AU - Morris, Amanda
AU - King, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Increasingly, parents of young children need postsecondary credentials to compete in the labor market and meet basic family needs. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of CareerAdvance, a two-generation education intervention that offers postsecondary career training in healthcare for parents paired with Head Start for children. Overall, we find that CareerAdvance promotes low-income parents’ educational advancement during the first three years after program entry, with weaker evidence of benefits to career progress and psychological wellbeing, and no evidence of economic gains. The two-generation program promotes greater educational and career advancement among parents without postsecondary credentials at baseline, than for parents who began the program with postsecondary credentials. In contrast, exploratory analyses suggest that parents entering the program with postsecondary credentials experienced benefits to some individual markers of economic and psychological wellbeing within three years.
AB - Increasingly, parents of young children need postsecondary credentials to compete in the labor market and meet basic family needs. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of CareerAdvance, a two-generation education intervention that offers postsecondary career training in healthcare for parents paired with Head Start for children. Overall, we find that CareerAdvance promotes low-income parents’ educational advancement during the first three years after program entry, with weaker evidence of benefits to career progress and psychological wellbeing, and no evidence of economic gains. The two-generation program promotes greater educational and career advancement among parents without postsecondary credentials at baseline, than for parents who began the program with postsecondary credentials. In contrast, exploratory analyses suggest that parents entering the program with postsecondary credentials experienced benefits to some individual markers of economic and psychological wellbeing within three years.
KW - Head Start
KW - Parents
KW - education
KW - policy
KW - propensity score
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U2 - 10.1080/19345747.2023.2273511
DO - 10.1080/19345747.2023.2273511
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85176292764
SN - 1934-5747
JO - Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
JF - Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness
ER -