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_95895 _aSantín González, Daniel |
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_aDoes preschool education attendance matter? _b : evidence from a natural experiment in Spain _c Daniel Santín and Gabriela Sicilia |
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| 500 | _aDisponible también en formato electrónico a través de la Biblioteca del IEF. | ||
| 520 | _aThe non-compulsory and non-free of charge character of preschool education level before 3 years old in Spain raises some doubts about the exogenous nature of this variable. This article provides new evidence about the impact of preschool years on educational outcomes by exploiting a peculiar Spanish database that supplies information on two classrooms at fourth grade in primary schools where students were randomly allocated into each group. Using an identification strategy that reproduces a natural experiment, we find that belonging to the group with more average years of preschool education significantly and positively impacts on fourthgrade students’ average outcomes. Particularly, an increase of one standard deviation in the difference in years of preschool attendance results in an increase of 0.16 (0.13) standard deviations in the group achievement for mathematics (reading). In view of the importance of preschool education and considering that preschool attendance before 3 years old is related with socio-economic variables, we conclude that extending free preschool education to the 2-year-old age group in Spain should be considered especially for students in families with less favourable backgrounds. | ||
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_966575 _aENSEÑANZA PREESCOLAR |
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_944900 _aGASTOS EN EDUCACION |
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_966576 _aSicilia, Gabriela |
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_9157678 _oOP 567/2018/46/47/48 _tApplied Economics _w(IEF)433 _x 0003-6846 _g v. 50, n. 46-48, October 2018, p. 5050-5063 |
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| 856 | _uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00036846.2018.1470314?needAccess=true | ||
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