National Institute for Early Education Research
National Institute for Early Education Research

NIEER Research


The role of classroom-level child behavior problems in predicting preschool teacher stress and classroom emotional climate.


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Outcomes, Quality and Curriculum

Child behavior problems, teacher executive functions, and teacher stress in Head Start classrooms.


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Quality and Curriculum, Workforce

School climate, teacher-child closeness, and low-income children’s academic skills in kindergarten.


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Quality and Curriculum

Neighborhood economic disadvantage and Head Start children’s academic, socioemotional, and behavioral functioning: Exploring quality as a mediating mechanism.


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

Does school mobility predict at-risk elementary school children’s math achievement? The mediating role of self-regulation


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

The roles of school readiness and poverty-related risk for 6th grade school outcomes


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Outcomes

Unpacking the treatment contrast in the Head Start Impact Study: To what extent does assignment to treatment affect quality of care?


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

Lifetime effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study through age 40


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

Updating the Economic Impacts of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

The High/Scope Perry Preschool Program: Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data from the Age-40 Follow-Up


Type: Journal Article
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes

Strategies in Pursuit of Pre-K Teacher Compensation Parity:


Type: Research Report
Topic: Economics and Finance, State & Local, Workforce

Getting Qualified: A Report on the Efforts of Preschool Teachers in New Jersey’s Abbott Districts to Improve their Qualifications


Type: Research Report
Sharon Ryan Ph.D. and Debra J. Ackerman
Topic: Governance and Accountability, Quality and Curriculum, State & Local, Workforce

Getting the Facts Right on Pre-K and the President’s Prek-K Proposal


Type: Policy Brief
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D.
Topic: Economics and Finance, Federal, Outcomes, Universal and Targeted

Preschoolers’ Executive Function: Importance, Contributors, Research Needs and Assessment Options


Type: Research Report
Debra J. Ackerman and Allison Friedman-Krauss, Ph.D.

In Pursuit of Pre-K Parity


Type: Policy Brief
Marcy Whitbook, Ph.D. and Caitlin McLean, Ph.D.
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Topic: Economics and Finance, State & Local, Workforce

Teacher Compensation Parity Policies and State-Funded Pre-K Programs


Type: Research Report
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. and Richard Kasmin
Topic: Economics and Finance, State & Local, Workforce

Brookings Institution: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects


Type: Research Report
Brookings Institution
Topic: Economics and Finance, Outcomes, Quality and Curriculum

State(s) of Head Start


Type: Research Report
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. and Allison H. Friedman-Krauss, Ph.D.
Topic: Access, Assessment, Federal, Quality and Curriculum

Funding Landscape for Preschool with a Highly Qualified Workforce


Type: Policy Brief
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. and Richard Kasmin
Topic: Economics and Finance, Workforce

Examining Quality in Two Preschool Settings: Publicly Funded Early Childhood Education and Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classrooms


Type: Research Report
Christina Yeager Pelatti, Jaclyn M. Dynia, Jessica A. R. Logan, Laura M. Justice, Joan Kaderavek