Giving Children a Better Start : Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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The authors study the effect of
pre-primary education on children's subsequent school
outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan
household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective
information on preschool attendance in the context of a
rapid expansion in the supply of pre-primary places. Using a
within household estimator, they find small gains from
preschool attendance at early ages that magnify as children
grow up. By age 15, treated children have accumulated 0.8
extra years of education and are 27 percentage points more
likely to be in school compared with their untreated
siblings. Instrumental variables estimates that control for
nonrandom selection of siblings into preschool lead to
similar results. The authors speculate that early grade
repetition harms subsequent school progression and that
pre-primary education appears as a successful policy option
to prevent early grade failure and its long lasting consequences.
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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, ACADEMIC OUTCOMES, ACADEMIC SKILLS, ADULT LITERACY, AGE GROUPS, ATTENDANCE RATES, ATTENTION, AVERAGE ATTENDANCE, AVERAGE LEVEL OF EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS, BIRTH ORDER, CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS, CLASSROOM, CLASSROOMS, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, COGNITIVE STIMULATION, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, COMPULSORY SCHOOLING, COMPULSORY SCHOOLING CYCLE, CONDITIONING, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTIONS, EARLY EDUCATION, EDUCATED MOTHERS, EDUCATED PARENTS, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS, EDUCATORS, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT RATES, FIRST GRADE, GENDER, GIRLS, GRADE REPETITION, GRADE RETENTION, HEAD START, HIGH SCHOOL, INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION, KINDERGARTEN, KINDERGARTENS, LATIN AMERICAN, LEARNING, LIFE CYCLE, LITERACY RATES, MOTIVATION, NUTRITION, PARENTAL EDUCATION, PREPRIMARY EDUCATION, PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM, PRESCHOOL EDUCATION, PRESCHOOL ENROLLMENT, PRESCHOOL TEACHERS, PRESCHOOL YEARS, PRESCHOOLS, PRIMARY CYCLE, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, PRIMARY ENROLLMENT, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, PRIMARY SCHOOL CYCLE, PRIMARY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS, PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, PRIMARY SCHOOL SYSTEM, PRIMARY SCHOOLING, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOL, PRIVATE SCHOOLING, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SCHOOL, PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, READING, RECALL, RECOGNITION, REPEATERS, REPETITION RATES, RETENTION RATES, SCHOOL DROP, SCHOOL ENROLMENT, SCHOOL ENTRY, SCHOOL FAILURE, SCHOOL LIFE, SCHOOL PARTICIPATION, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOL YEAR, SCHOOL YEARS, SCHOOL-AGE, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SKILL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIALIZATION, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TEENAGERS, UNIVERSAL ENROLLMENT, UNIVERSAL PRIMARY SCHOOLING, YOUNG CHILDREN