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| dc.title | Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment? |
| dc.contributor.author | Bastos, Paulo |
| dc.contributor.author | Straume, Odd Rune |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | Brazil |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-27T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2013-11-08T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a regression-discontinuity design reveal that larger federal transfers lead to a significant expansion of local public preschool services, but show no effects on the quantity or quality of private provision. These findings are consistent with a theory in which households differ in willingness to pay for preschool services, and private suppliers optimally adjust prices in response to an expansion of lower-quality, free-of-charge public supply. |
| dc.format.extent | 29 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011518 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Preschool-Education-in-Brazil-Does-Public-Supply-Crowd-Out-Private-Enrollment.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Early Childhood Education |
| dc.subject | Preschool Education |
| dc.subject | Child Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I21 - Analysis of Education |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I28 - Government Policy |
| dc.subject.jelcode | L21 - Business Objectives of the Firm |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |
| idb.operation | RG-K1234 |