Scale-Up Effect in Early Childhood and Public Policy

John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at University of Chicago, USA and a Research Associate at the NBER. He is a Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. List served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2002 to 2003.Dana Suskind is a pediatric otolaryngologist, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program at University of Chicago, USA. Dr. Suskind is a Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health.Lauren H. Supplee is a Senior Program Officer at the William T. Grant Foundation and former Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Senior Scholar in Early Childhood Research at Child Trends.

• 1. Failed to Scale: Embracing the Challenge of Scaling in Early Childhood Part I: The Science of Early Childhood and Complexities of Scaling 2. Early Childhood: The Opportunity to Untap Human Potential 3. How Cognitive Biases Can Undermine Program Scale-Up Decisions 4. How a Behavioral Economic Framework Can Support Scaling of Early Childhood Interventions 5. The Economics of Investing in Early Childhood: Importance of Understanding the Science of Scaling Part II: The Scale-up Effect: Understanding the Threats to Scalability Scaling: A Case Study 6. The Science of Using Science: A New Framework for Understanding the Threats to Scaling Evidence-Based Policies 7. When is Evidence Actionable? Assessing Whether a Program is Ready to Scale 8. Studying Properties of the Population: Designing Studies that Mirror Real World Scenarios 9. Fidelity and Properties of the Situation: Challenges and Recommendations 10. Spillovers and Program Evaluation at Scale Real-world Application and Understanding of the Threats to Scaling: Commentary on Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 11. 70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment 12. A Research Agenda Built for Scale Part III: Charting a Path Forward 13. Designing Programs with an Eye Toward Scaling 14. Accounting for Differences in Population: Predicting Intervention Impact at Scale 15. Sustaining Impact after Scaling Using Data and Continuous Feedback 16. Measurement Built for Scale: Designing and Using Measures of Intervention and Outcome that Facilitate Scaling Up Commentary: Lessons Learned from Scaling Cost Measurement in Federal Early Care and Education and Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs 17. Enabling Contexts to Support Scale-Up: Lessons from Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships 18. Embedding Workforce Development into Scaled Innovations to Prevent Declines in Administration Quality 19. Forging Collaborations for Scale: Catalyzing Partnerships Among Policy Makers, Practitioners, Researchers, Funders, and Evidence-to-Policy Organizations 20. Process to Identify Effective Policies to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-Three System of Care 21. Building Political Will 22. Recommendations for Mitigating Threats to Scaling