Giving children a better start: Preschool attendance and school-age profiles

By S. Berlinski, Sebastian Galiani, Marco Manacorda. 2006

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This brief summarizes the giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles in Uruguay for the period 1995. The author 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, we find small gains from preschool attendance at early ages that get magnified 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 to their untreated siblings. Instrumental variables estimates that attempt to control for non-random selection of siblings into preschool lead to similar results. Pre-primary education appears as a successful and cost-effective policy to prevent early grade failure and its long lasting consequences in low income countries.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes (2011, background): “Positive effects of child care on children’s short-run outcomes are also found by Gormley and Gayer (2005), Fitzpatrick (2008), Melhuish et al. (2008), and Berlinski et al. (2008, 2009).”
Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start (2012, background): “[9] Berlinski, Samuel, Sebastian Galiani, and Marco Manacorda.”
Empowering parents to improve education: evidence from rural Mexico (2006, background): “years (Jimerson, 2001; Marshall, 2003; Manacorda, 2008 and Berlinski et al., 2008 ).”
Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance (2018, neutral): “3 For example, whereas Berlinski, Galiani, and Manacorda (2008), Berlinski, Galiani, and Gertler (2009), Havnes and Mogstad (2011), and Felfe, Nollenberger, and Rodriguez-Planas (2015) find positive mean effects of an expansion in pre-elementary education in Argentina, Uruguay,Norway, and Spain,…”