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Research estimates the lifelong return on investment for quality early childhood programs is more than 13 percent a year for every dollar invested

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García, Jorge Luis, James Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, and Maria Jose Prado. 2019. “Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program,” p. 1. Chicago: Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. http://humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wpaper/Garcia_Heckman_Leaf_etal_2016_life-cycle-benefits-ecp_r2.pdf.