National Conference of the Early Childhood Research Collaborative - This website provides links to the papers that were presented at the National Conference of the Early Childhood Research Collaborative, organized by the Early Childhood Research Collaborative (ECRC), which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota Center for Early Education and Development. The papers cover research findings about a range of early childhood programs, taking a variety of angles - from benefits to children and families, to cost-effectiveness, to scaling up demonstration projects. Programs reviewed include Women, Infants and Children (WIC); the Nurse Family Partnership; the Abecedarian Project; Head Start and Early Head Start; High/Scope Perry Preschool; the Chicago Child-Parent Center; the Tulsa pre-k program; the Michigan School Readiness Program; the Abbott Preschool Program; and the MyTeachingPartner online professional development program....