Blanden, J;
Del Bono, E;
Hansen, K;
Rabe, B;
(2021)
Quantity and quality of childcare and children's educational outcomes.
Journal of Population Economics
10.1007/s00148-021-00835-4.
(In press).
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Quantity and quality of childcare and children's educational outcomes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00148-021-00835-4 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00835-4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129372 |
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