投资学前教育回报大

The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education

2000年诺贝尔经济奖得奖人，美国芝加哥大学经济学教授詹姆斯·赫克曼（James Joseph Heckman）根据一份追踪40年的幼儿教育调查算了一笔账。他在2008年敦促美国政府加强对幼儿教育的投资说：“投资在高素质的幼儿教育上，要比投资在任何其它方面的回报率都高，年回报率可在7%至10%。而且这项高素质教育投资，要从孩子越小开始越好，越小回报率越高，随着孩子的年龄增长，回报率逐年降低。”

Professor James J. Heckman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2000 and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, concluded the findings of the 40-year-long Perry Preschool Project. When he advised the United States government in 2008 to increase its investment in early childhood education, he said, “Investing in quality pre-school education has higher returns than any other investment. The estimate of the overall annual social rate of return is in the range of seven to ten per cent. And this investment should start when the child is as young as possible. The rate of return has an inverse relationship with the age of the child.”