Blogs

• Briefing Book: Quick Hits: Policies to Think About as the Administration Changes (December 2, 2024)

• Briefing Book: Talking Shop: The Way Forward on Child Care (September 23, 2024)

• Niskanen Center’s Hypertext and Vital City’s The Journal: The ABCs of Policy Research: Reading, Writing, and Revisiting Our Findings (March 27, 2024)

• Briefing Book: Over the Child Care “Cliff” (October 4, 2023)

• President’s Council of Economic Advisers: Improving Access, Affordability, and Quality in the Early Care and Education (ECE) Market (July 18, 2023)

• President’s Council of Economic Advisers: On Anniversary of Equal Pay Act, Signs of Progress and Remaining Challenges for Women in the Labor Market (June 21, 2023)

• President’s Council of Economic Advisers: This Mother’s Day, More Moms Back at Work, but Care Challenges Remain (May 16, 2023)

• Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Fixing Child Care? What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers (June 14, 2022)

• Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: What Does the Tennessee Pre-K Study Really Tell Us About Public Preschool Programs? (February 10, 2022)

• American Scientist Macroscope Blog: Does In-Person Schooling Contribute to COVID-19 Spread? (January 29, 2021)

• Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Weekly Review of Emerging Evidence: Schools, Students, and COVID-19 (August 2020 — June 2021)

Podcasts

Summaries

• Research summary of Head Start impact (updated frequently)

• “Measuring the Broader Benefits of Early Childhood Care and Education: Families, Communities, and Society,” AEFP Live Handbook of Education Policy Research (2025)

• “The ABCs of Policy Research: Reading, Writing, and Revisiting Our Findings,” Vital City’s The Journal and Niskanen Center’s Hypertext (2024)

• Executive summary of NBER Working Paper No. 30140, “An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education” (2022)

• “Does Full-day Kindergarten Reduce Achievement Gaps,” Institute for Research on Poverty’s Focus Research Brief (2017)

• “Short-run Fade-out in Head Start and Implications for Long-run Effectiveness” (with Doug Miller, Jens Ludwig, and Na’ama Shenhav), Center for Poverty Research Policy Brief (2016)

Threads

• Thread on the impact of full-day kindergarten expansions

• Thread on reanalyses of Head Start Impact Study

• Tweetstorm on projected effects of child care subsidies

• Tweetstorm on intergenerational effects of Head Start

• Tweetstorm on what we know about Head Start impact

• Response thread on takeup of publicly-funded preschool & childcare

• Thread on evidence from introduction of universal childcare in Quebec