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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	45.960
Context details	Socioeconomically disadvantaged children in Early Head Start centers located in all regions of the country in both urban and rural settings
Age	5 months

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1998
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	36
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Early Head Start Federal program; 17 centers provided different services: 4 mainly daycare, 7 mainly home visits and 6 daycare and home visits

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	Individual

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Cognitive	Bayley-MDI	3	1658	Coeff: 12.00; SD: 100.00; NT1: 879; NC1: 779
Complete sample	Cognitive	PPVT III	3	1403	Coeff: 13.00; SD: 100.00; NT1: 738; NC1: 665

Study	Love, John M., Ellen Eliason Kisker, Christine Ross, Helen Raikes, Jill Constantine, Kimberly Boller, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn et al. "The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their Parents: Lessons for Policy and Programs." Developmental Psychology 41, no. 6 (2005): 885.