Access to Preprimary Education and Progression in Primary School: Evidence from Rural Guatemala
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.
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| Format: | Working Papers biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Early Childhood Education, Child Development, I21 - Analysis of Education, I28 - Government Policy, Early childhood development, Preprimary education, Rural areas, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011437 https://publications.iadb.org/en/access-preprimary-education-and-progression-primary-school-evidence-rural-guatemala |
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