Social Policy: Targeting programmes effectively
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By linking data from a 40-year birth cohort study with multiple administrative databases, Caspi and colleagues show that 20% of the population accounts for 60% - 80% of several adult social ills. Outcomes for this group can be accurately predicted from as early as age 3, using a small set of indicators of disadvantage. This finding supports policies that target children from disadvantaged families and complements recent literature on the life-cycle benefits of early childhood programmes.
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- Authors
- Heckman, J. J., & García, J. L.
- Affiliations
- American Bar Foundation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Heckman, James J.
- ORCID
- Heckman, James J.
- Venue
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Published
- 2017-01-10
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2397-3374 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5476936
- OpenAlex
- W2569306142
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 2.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Human Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R24AG048081)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R37HD065072, R01HD054702)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Policies and Family
- Keywords
- social policy targeting, birth cohort studies, administrative data linkage, social deprivation, early childhood programs, child poverty
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