TY  - GEN
T3  - IFS Working Papers
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Institute for Fiscal Studies
A1  - Berlinski, S.
A1  - Galiani, S.
Y1  - 2004/11//
N2  - 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.
AV  - public
SN  - 1742-0415
ID  - discovery2847
TI  - The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment
KW  - JEL classification: I28
KW  -  J13
KW  -  O15
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2004.0430
ER  -