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| dc.title | Access to Preprimary Education and Progression in Primary School: Evidence from Rural Guatemala |
| dc.contributor.author | Bastos, Paulo |
| dc.contributor.author | Bottan, Nicolas L. |
| dc.contributor.author | Cristia, Julian P. |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | Guatemala |
| dc.date.available | 2012-12-14T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2012-12-11T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in public preprimary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural communities of Guatemala. Combining administrative and population census data in a difference-in-difference framework, the paper examines a large-scale construction program that increased the number of preprimaries from around 5,300 to 11,500 between 1998 and 2005. The results indicate that the program increased by 2. 1 percentage points the fraction of students that progress adequately and attend sixth grade by age 12. These positive effects are heavily concentrated among girls. |
| dc.format.extent | 31 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011437 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Access-to-Preprimary-Education-and-Progression-in-Primary-School-Evidence-from-Rural-Guatemala.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Early Childhood Education |
| dc.subject | Child Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I21 - Analysis of Education |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I28 - Government Policy |
| dc.subject.keywords | Early childhood development, Preprimary education, Rural areas |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |
| idb.operation | RG-K1234 |