In the current article, we examine the long-run school selection patterns of children randomly assigned to the Chicago School Readiness Project, an early childhood educational (ECE) intervention that aimed to improve the quality of Head Start classrooms serving low-income communities. Analyses suggest that adolescents who participated in the program were more likely to opt out of their assigned neighborhood school and attend schools with better indicators of academic performance. Further analyses suggested that these selection patterns began in elementary school, although elementary school quality explained only a small portion of the effect on high school selection. Results suggest that intensive ECE interventions could have lasting effects on children’s patterns of selection into later educational environments.

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探索早期儿童教育干预对后期学校选择的影响

在当前的文章中，我们研究了随机分配到芝加哥学校准备项目的儿童的长期学校选择模式，这是一项旨在提高为低收入社区服务的启蒙课堂的质量的幼儿教育 (ECE) 干预措施。分析表明，参与该计划的青少年更有可能选择退出他们指定的邻里学校，并上学成绩指标更好的学校。进一步的分析表明，这些选择模式始于小学，尽管小学质量仅解释了对高中选择影响的一小部分。结果表明，密集的 ECE 干预可能会对儿童选择进入后期教育环境的模式产生持久影响。