The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment

By S. Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani. 2004

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We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school attendance and maternal labor supply. Identification relies on a differences-in-differences strategy where we combine differences across regions in the number of facilities built with differences in exposure across cohorts induced by the timing of the program. We find a sizeable impact of the program on pre-primary school participation among children aged between 3 and 5. In fact, we cannot reject the null hypothesis of a full take-up of newly constructed places. In addition, we find that the childcare subsidy induced by the program increases maternal employment and that this effect is in line with the one previously found for the US.

Subfields: Education, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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Earnings Returns to the British Education Expansion. (2011, background): “Much research has looked at the impacts of changes in compulsory schooling laws (Harmon and Walker 1995; Oreopoulos 2006; Devereux and Hart 2010) and of school-building programmes (Duflo 2001; Berlinski and Galiani 2007).”
Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand (2017, background): “particular, the number of schools or planned schools associates positively with years of education and school enrolment (Berlinski and Galiani, 2007; Duflo, 2001).”
Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Spain (2015, methodology): “Unfortunately, we do not observe children’s day care enrollment, thus precluding us from analyzing the enrollment decision directly, as in Cascio (2009b) and Berlinski and Galiani (2007).”
The Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment (2012, result): “Consistent with this notion, empirical research ﬁnds that maternal employment is responsive to kindergarten access (Berlinski and Galiani 2007; Cascio 2006; Gelbach 2002).”
Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment (2011, neutral): “12Specifically, we include a large set of dummy variables for (1) years of education (saturated), (2) spouse years of education (saturated), (3) age (6 dummies), (4) spouse age (6 dummies), (7) children 3–6, 7–10 or 11–15 years of age (we include a dummy each for 1, 2 and 3 or more children separate”
The effect of pre-primary education on primary school performance (2006, background): “Accordingly, rooms constructed in 3 Berlinski and Galiani (2004) also consider take-up at the household level in order to investigate the effects of this large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on maternal labor supply.”