Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

Autor:	Jo Blanden, Kirstine Hansen, Birgitta Rabe, Emilia Del Bono
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences 050301 education Child development Term (time) Quality rating 0502 economics and business Quality (business) 050207 economics Psychology 0503 education Demography media_common Social policy
Zdroj:	Journal of Population Economics. 35:785-828
ISSN:	1432-1475 0933-1433
DOI:	10.1007/s00148-021-00835-4
Popis:	Policy-makers wanting to support child development can choose to adjust the quantity or quality of publicly funded universal pre-school. To assess the impact of such changes, we estimate the effects of an increase in free pre-school education in England of about 3.5 months at age 3 on children’s school achievement at age 5. We exploit date-of-birth discontinuities that create variation in the length and starting age of free pre-school using administrative school records linked to nursery characteristics. Estimated effects are small overall, but the impact of the additional term is substantially larger in settings with the highest inspection quality rating but not in settings with highly qualified staff. Estimated effects fade out by age 7.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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