eprintid: 2847
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2007-06-25 12:00:00
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Berlinski, S.
creators_name: Galiani, S.
creators_id: SGBER75
creators_id: 
title: The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12055
subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
keywords: JEL classification: I28, J13, O15
abstract: 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.
date: 2004-11
date_type: published
publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.ifs.2004.0430
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Berlinski, S
lyricists_id: SGBER75
full_text_status: public
series: IFS Working Papers
number: W04/30
place_of_pub: London, UK
issn: 1742-0415
citation:        Berlinski, S.;    Galiani, S.;      (2004)    The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment.                    (IFS Working Papers  W04/30). Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
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