@workingpaper {309231,
	title = {Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights},
	year = {Working Paper},
	abstract = {This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided\&nbsp;financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and\&nbsp;executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at\&nbsp;early childhood sessions, completing homework assignments with their children, and for\&nbsp;their child{\textquoteright}s demonstration of mastery on interim assessments. This intervention had large\&nbsp;and statistically significant positive impacts on both cognitive and non-cognitive test scores\&nbsp;of Hispanics and Whites, but no impact on Blacks. These differential outcomes across races\&nbsp;are not attributable to differences in observable characteristics (e.g. family size, mother{\textquoteright}s age,\&nbsp;mother{\textquoteright}s education) or to the intensity of engagement with the program. Children with\&nbsp;above median (pre-treatment) non cognitive scores accrue the most benefits from treatment.},
	author = {Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Steven D. Levitt and List, John A.}
}
