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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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: Paulo Bastos
Format: Working Papers biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
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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