Giving Children a Better Start : Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles

Giving Children a Better Start : Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles

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 contex...

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Main Authors:	Berlinski, Samuel, Galiani, Sebastian, Manacorda, Marco
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/06/7680908/giving-children-better-start-preschool-attendance-school-age-profiles http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7098

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Summary:	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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