?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+effect+of+a+large+expansion+of+pre-primary+school+facilities+on+preschool+attendance+and+maternal+employment&rft.creator=Berlinski%2C+S.&rft.creator=Galiani%2C+S.&rft.description=We+provide+evidence+on+the+impact+of+a+large+construction+of+pre-primary+school%0D%0Afacilities+in+Argentina.+We+estimate+the+causal+impact+of+the+program+on+pre-primary+school%0D%0Aattendance+and+maternal+labor+supply.+Identification+relies+on+a+differences-in-differences%0D%0Astrategy+where+we+combine+differences+across+regions+in+the+number+of+facilities+built+with%0D%0Adifferences+in+exposure+across+cohorts+induced+by+the+timing+of+the+program.+We+find+a%0D%0Asizeable+impact+of+the+program+on+pre-primary+school+participation+among+children+aged%0D%0Abetween+3+and+5.+In+fact%2C+we+cannot+reject+the+null+hypothesis+of+a+full+take-up+of+newly%0D%0Aconstructed+places.+In+addition%2C+we+find+that+the+childcare+subsidy+induced+by+the+program%0D%0Aincreases+maternal+employment+and+that+this+effect+is+in+line+with+the+one+previously+found%0D%0Afor+the+US.&rft.subject=JEL+classification%3A+I28%2C+J13%2C+O15&rft.publisher=Institute+for+Fiscal+Studies&rft.date=2004-11&rft.type=Working+%2F+discussion+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(IFS+Working+Papers++W04%2F30).+Institute+for+Fiscal+Studies%3A+London%2C+UK.+(2004)+++++&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F2847%2F1%2F2847.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F2847%2F&rft.rights=open