Borowsky, J., J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, & M. Wiswall. An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education
Summaries
- Executive summary
- Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Fixing Child Care: What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers
- White House: State Breakdown: The Biden-Harris Administration's Funding Request Would Help Prevent Families Across the Country from Losing Child Care
- Economic Report of the President (2023) President's Council of Economic Advisers: p. 147 & 150
- OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2022 (2022) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: p. 94
- USA Today (video): How affordable is child care near me?
- Early Learning Nation: Economists Find Investing in Child Care Will Dramatically Reduce Costs, Increase Mother's Employment, and Increase Quality Care
- Axios: Child care subsidies would send 1.2 million women into the workforce, new paper finds
- Bloomberg: Biden's US Child-Care Aide Would Super-Charge Mom's Employment, Study Says
- Huffington Post: The Child Care Crisis Needs a Lot More Attention Than It's Getting
- New York Times: Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women from Benefiting
- Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
- NBER Reporter: Children and Families Program Report 2024
Casey Family Programs. Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?. Aug. 19, 2020.
Duncan G. & A. Sojourner. (2013) Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? Journal of Human Resources. 48(4): 945-968.
Working Papers
Duncan G. & A. Sojourner. (2013) Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? Journal of Human Resources. 48(4): 945-968.
Press Mentions- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Minnpost: New study: High-quality preschool for poor kids under 3 would eliminate achievement gap
-
- Educators for Excellence Minnesota blog post.
- 2016 Economic Report of the U.S. President Chapter 4: Inequality in Early Childhood and Effective Public Policy Interventions
- KAZM (Sedona, Ariz): One solution to many problems 2/22/14
- Carlson School Magazine: Closing the Achievement Gap with Early Childhood Education
- Cincinnatians for the American Dream: An Economist's Take on Pre-K
- Minnesota Daily: Cradle to K Cabinet plan advances
- Southwest Journal: Cradle to K report due in December
- Star-Tribune: Minneapolis Mayor Hodges Forms Crade-to-K Cabinet 5/23/1
- Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges & MPR's Kerri Miller on the Daily Circuit [8:00 - 9:30 minute mark].
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Sustaining early childhood education gains
- Minnpost: "Rock-star researchers on early ed to talk at U of M event"
- Video: Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute panel on early learning
- The Atlantic Citylab: How the Twin Cities Hope to Get Ahead of Demographic Change
- Southwest Journal: Health Kids, Healthy City
- Go Local Providence (R.I.): It's All About Education: Can Universal Preschool Close the Achievement Gap?
- Mention at end of Minnpost article on Education Writers' Association meeting
- Investing in Kids blog by Tim Bartik (Upjohn Institute) gives extensive comment on paper
- Discussed on KTNF 950AM Daily Report [12:05 - 17:00 minute mark]
- Way to Grow: U Economist Publishes Study on Early Ed
- Huffington Post: This is what could close the achievement gap among young kids 1/7/14
- Think Progress article 1/3/14
- Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Does Pre-K Work? by Russ Whitehurst 2/26/14
- Tim Bartik response to Whitehurst on his Investing in Kids blog
Upjohn Institute, Child Care for CHIPS: Will tying semiconductor incentives to child care help build the system we need? (with Tim Bartik and Kathleen Bolter).
CLASP & NWLC: Child Care is Key to Our Economic Recovery
Summaries
- Brief and Technical Appendix
- U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee: We need to save child care before it's too late
- Washington Post editorial board: The child care industry is on the brink of collapse. Congress must rescue it.
- Non-Profit Quarterly: Collision Course on Childcare: Will Congress Take the Wheel?
- CNBC: Republicans relief plan includes $15 billion bailout of the child-care industry -- but it falls short of what's needed, advocates say
- Bloomberg: Punching In: Jobless-Aid Fix Heading to the Negotiating Table
- Fatherly: The Child Care Industry Needs More Funding. Why Hasn't It Gotten Any?
- CNN Politics: 4 things Congress can do right now to help working parents get through the pandemic
- CNBC: Elizabeth Warren urges the SBA and Treasury to help keep child-care providers afloat
- Letter from 85 U.S. House representatives
- U.S. House Education & Labor Committee: DeLauro, Scott, Murray, Members introduce $50 billion child care stabilization fund legislation
- Newsweek Opinion: Governors Can Reopen All They Like. Without Child Care, Parents Can't Work
- CNBC: Democrats earmark $7 billion for child care in newest relief package but it won't be enough to stabilize the system for long
- Huffpost: Democrats Push for $50 Billion Child Care Bailout in Next Stimulus
- CBS Minnesota: U.S. Senators Smith and Warren Press to Include $50 Billion Child Care Bailout in Next Relief Package
- Ms Magazine: Fear and Hoarding in the Time of Coronavirus: Invest in Child Care, not Private Jets
- The Nation: The Heartbreaking Choices Faced by Child Care Providers on the Front Lines
Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner & N. Huey (2019) Differential effects from access to high-quality early care. In Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains. Editors: A. Reynolds & J. Temple. Cambridge Univ Press: Cambridge, U.K.
Working Papers Press Mentions
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Testimony to Minnesota House Early Childhood Finance and Policy Division: Investments in early childhood could prevent, close skill gaps, division hears
- IZA Newsroom (Germany): Subsidized high-quality early care improves child development especially among children in low-income families
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Sustaining early childhood education gains
Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall, Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Working Papers Press Mentions
- Poverty Research and Policy podcast: The Value of Investments in Quality Child Care
Lee, W. F., A. Sojourner, E. Davis, & J. Borowsky (2025) Effects of Child Care Vouchers on Price, Quantity, and Provider Turnover in Private Care Markets. Journal of Human Capital. 19(1): 1-30
Working Papers Summaries
Press Mentions
Davis, E., W. Lee & A. Sojourner (2019) Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care & Education. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 47: 472-486.
Working Papers Summaries
- ChildCareAccess.org: maps and reports on families’ child care access in every Minnesota neighborhood.
- Won Lee won University of Minnesota U-Spatial 2019 prize for best use of maps by graduate student.
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- UMinnesota: New University of Minnesota tool reveals child care access challenges across the state
- Minnesota Daily: UMN researchers create a child care access tool
- New Ulm Journal: UM tool shows child care access challenges
- Hutchinson Leader: Litchfield child care access below state average, report says
- Aitkin Independent Age: Revealing local child care access challenges
- SouthernMinn.com: Number of reasons for child care shortage, no easy answers
- Pine County Journal: Mapping tool provides insight into child care needs & How the child care shortfall affects Carlton County and what officials are doing to address it
Gulamhussein, Q. U. A., Susman-Stillman, A., Zhou, X., Addo, A., Ahmed, F., Flynn, P. M., Gunnar, M. R., Okoro, O., Olson D., Osman, M., Riggs, S. M., Sojourner, A., Walker, S. K., & Lee, R. M. (2024). Feasibility Study of a Mobile Health Parenting Intervention Among Somali/Somali Americans From Refugee Families in the United States. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion. Special Issue: Racial Health Inequities in BIPOC Communities, 1-30
Simon, D., A. Sojourner, J. Pedersen & H. Ombisa-Skallet. Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children. Other distributions: NBER, IZA.
Summaries
- Minn-LInK Research Brief: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement
- Minn-LInK Discussion Guide: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement
- NBER Digest: Financial Incentives Can Increase Permanence for Foster Children
- Public News Service: Researchers link better outcomes to MN adoption reforms
- MinnPost: A look at Minnesota's adoption policy change. Is it working?
Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard. Fixing child care: What expanded public subsidies could mean for children, families, and teachers (with J. Borowsky, J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, & M. Wiswall)
Borowsky, J., E. Davis, and A. Sojourner. How Far Will They Go? Consumer Choice in Subsidized Early Care and Education
Press Mentions
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
Hamilton Project, Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability (with Liz Davis)
Press Mentions
- New York Times: How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
- Star Tribune: Gov. Tim Walz wants to end child poverty in Minnesota. What would it take?
- Fatherly: New data confirms American parents are on their own when it comes to child care
- Radically Pragmatic, Progressive Policy Institute: video + podcast
- Child's Path: Can investing in early childhood education beat stock market returns?
- News-Register, Yamill County, Oregon: Rutledge: Short-sighted U.S. failing its children
- Deseret News: Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
- Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota researchers craft proposal to improve child care access
- Newsbreak: Why the U.S. Is One of the Worst Developed Countries to Raise A Child In
Milken Review, A Promise Not Kept: Early Childhood Education and Development
Borowsky, J., J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, & M. Wiswall. An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education
Summaries
- Executive summary
- Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Fixing Child Care: What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers
- White House: State Breakdown: The Biden-Harris Administration's Funding Request Would Help Prevent Families Across the Country from Losing Child Care
- Economic Report of the President (2023) President's Council of Economic Advisers: p. 147 & 150
- OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2022 (2022) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: p. 94
- USA Today (video): How affordable is child care near me?
- Early Learning Nation: Economists Find Investing in Child Care Will Dramatically Reduce Costs, Increase Mother's Employment, and Increase Quality Care
- Axios: Child care subsidies would send 1.2 million women into the workforce, new paper finds
- Bloomberg: Biden's US Child-Care Aide Would Super-Charge Mom's Employment, Study Says
- Huffington Post: The Child Care Crisis Needs a Lot More Attention Than It's Getting
- New York Times: Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women from Benefiting
- Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
- NBER Reporter: Children and Families Program Report 2024
Casey Family Programs. Are there parallels between hiring and child protection processes that can help reduce bias and narrow child welfare’s front door?. Aug. 19, 2020.
Duncan G. & A. Sojourner. (2013) Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? Journal of Human Resources. 48(4): 945-968.
Working Papers
Duncan G. & A. Sojourner. (2013) Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? Journal of Human Resources. 48(4): 945-968.
Press Mentions- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Minnpost: New study: High-quality preschool for poor kids under 3 would eliminate achievement gap
-
- Educators for Excellence Minnesota blog post.
- 2016 Economic Report of the U.S. President Chapter 4: Inequality in Early Childhood and Effective Public Policy Interventions
- KAZM (Sedona, Ariz): One solution to many problems 2/22/14
- Carlson School Magazine: Closing the Achievement Gap with Early Childhood Education
- Cincinnatians for the American Dream: An Economist's Take on Pre-K
- Minnesota Daily: Cradle to K Cabinet plan advances
- Southwest Journal: Cradle to K report due in December
- Star-Tribune: Minneapolis Mayor Hodges Forms Crade-to-K Cabinet 5/23/1
- Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges & MPR's Kerri Miller on the Daily Circuit [8:00 - 9:30 minute mark].
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Sustaining early childhood education gains
- Minnpost: "Rock-star researchers on early ed to talk at U of M event"
- Video: Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute panel on early learning
- The Atlantic Citylab: How the Twin Cities Hope to Get Ahead of Demographic Change
- Southwest Journal: Health Kids, Healthy City
- Go Local Providence (R.I.): It's All About Education: Can Universal Preschool Close the Achievement Gap?
- Mention at end of Minnpost article on Education Writers' Association meeting
- Investing in Kids blog by Tim Bartik (Upjohn Institute) gives extensive comment on paper
- Discussed on KTNF 950AM Daily Report [12:05 - 17:00 minute mark]
- Way to Grow: U Economist Publishes Study on Early Ed
- Huffington Post: This is what could close the achievement gap among young kids 1/7/14
- Think Progress article 1/3/14
- Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Does Pre-K Work? by Russ Whitehurst 2/26/14
- Tim Bartik response to Whitehurst on his Investing in Kids blog
Upjohn Institute, Child Care for CHIPS: Will tying semiconductor incentives to child care help build the system we need? (with Tim Bartik and Kathleen Bolter).
CLASP & NWLC: Child Care is Key to Our Economic Recovery
Summaries
- Brief and Technical Appendix
- U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee: We need to save child care before it's too late
- Washington Post editorial board: The child care industry is on the brink of collapse. Congress must rescue it.
- Non-Profit Quarterly: Collision Course on Childcare: Will Congress Take the Wheel?
- CNBC: Republicans relief plan includes $15 billion bailout of the child-care industry -- but it falls short of what's needed, advocates say
- Bloomberg: Punching In: Jobless-Aid Fix Heading to the Negotiating Table
- Fatherly: The Child Care Industry Needs More Funding. Why Hasn't It Gotten Any?
- CNN Politics: 4 things Congress can do right now to help working parents get through the pandemic
- CNBC: Elizabeth Warren urges the SBA and Treasury to help keep child-care providers afloat
- Letter from 85 U.S. House representatives
- U.S. House Education & Labor Committee: DeLauro, Scott, Murray, Members introduce $50 billion child care stabilization fund legislation
- Newsweek Opinion: Governors Can Reopen All They Like. Without Child Care, Parents Can't Work
- CNBC: Democrats earmark $7 billion for child care in newest relief package but it won't be enough to stabilize the system for long
- Huffpost: Democrats Push for $50 Billion Child Care Bailout in Next Stimulus
- CBS Minnesota: U.S. Senators Smith and Warren Press to Include $50 Billion Child Care Bailout in Next Relief Package
- Ms Magazine: Fear and Hoarding in the Time of Coronavirus: Invest in Child Care, not Private Jets
- The Nation: The Heartbreaking Choices Faced by Child Care Providers on the Front Lines
Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner & N. Huey (2019) Differential effects from access to high-quality early care. In Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains. Editors: A. Reynolds & J. Temple. Cambridge Univ Press: Cambridge, U.K.
Working Papers Press Mentions
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Testimony to Minnesota House Early Childhood Finance and Policy Division: Investments in early childhood could prevent, close skill gaps, division hears
- IZA Newsroom (Germany): Subsidized high-quality early care improves child development especially among children in low-income families
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Sustaining early childhood education gains
Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall, Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Working Papers Press Mentions
- Poverty Research and Policy podcast: The Value of Investments in Quality Child Care
Lee, W. F., A. Sojourner, E. Davis, & J. Borowsky (2025) Effects of Child Care Vouchers on Price, Quantity, and Provider Turnover in Private Care Markets. Journal of Human Capital. 19(1): 1-30
Working Papers Summaries
Press Mentions
Davis, E., W. Lee & A. Sojourner (2019) Family-Centered Measures of Access to Early Care & Education. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 47: 472-486.
Working Papers Summaries
- ChildCareAccess.org: maps and reports on families’ child care access in every Minnesota neighborhood.
- Won Lee won University of Minnesota U-Spatial 2019 prize for best use of maps by graduate student.
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- UMinnesota: New University of Minnesota tool reveals child care access challenges across the state
- Minnesota Daily: UMN researchers create a child care access tool
- New Ulm Journal: UM tool shows child care access challenges
- Hutchinson Leader: Litchfield child care access below state average, report says
- Aitkin Independent Age: Revealing local child care access challenges
- SouthernMinn.com: Number of reasons for child care shortage, no easy answers
- Pine County Journal: Mapping tool provides insight into child care needs & How the child care shortfall affects Carlton County and what officials are doing to address it
Gulamhussein, Q. U. A., Susman-Stillman, A., Zhou, X., Addo, A., Ahmed, F., Flynn, P. M., Gunnar, M. R., Okoro, O., Olson D., Osman, M., Riggs, S. M., Sojourner, A., Walker, S. K., & Lee, R. M. (2024). Feasibility Study of a Mobile Health Parenting Intervention Among Somali/Somali Americans From Refugee Families in the United States. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion. Special Issue: Racial Health Inequities in BIPOC Communities, 1-30
Simon, D., A. Sojourner, J. Pedersen & H. Ombisa-Skallet. Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children. Other distributions: NBER, IZA.
Summaries
- Minn-LInK Research Brief: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement
- Minn-LInK Discussion Guide: Adoption, Financial Incentives, and Child Achievement
- NBER Digest: Financial Incentives Can Increase Permanence for Foster Children
- Public News Service: Researchers link better outcomes to MN adoption reforms
- MinnPost: A look at Minnesota's adoption policy change. Is it working?
Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard. Fixing child care: What expanded public subsidies could mean for children, families, and teachers (with J. Borowsky, J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, & M. Wiswall)
Borowsky, J., E. Davis, and A. Sojourner. How Far Will They Go? Consumer Choice in Subsidized Early Care and Education
Press Mentions
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
Hamilton Project, Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability (with Liz Davis)
Press Mentions
- New York Times: How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
- U.S. Treasury Department: The Economics of Child Care Supply in the United States
- Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care
- Star Tribune: Gov. Tim Walz wants to end child poverty in Minnesota. What would it take?
- Fatherly: New data confirms American parents are on their own when it comes to child care
- Radically Pragmatic, Progressive Policy Institute: video + podcast
- Child's Path: Can investing in early childhood education beat stock market returns?
- News-Register, Yamill County, Oregon: Rutledge: Short-sighted U.S. failing its children
- Deseret News: Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
- Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota researchers craft proposal to improve child care access
- Newsbreak: Why the U.S. Is One of the Worst Developed Countries to Raise A Child In
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org