The Effect of a Large Expansion of Pre-Primary School Facilities on Preschool Attendance and Maternal Employment
Samuel Berlinski and Sebastian Galiani ,
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Labor Economics
665-680
June
2007
Abstract

We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school attendance and maternal labor supply. Identification relies on a differences-in-differences strategy where we combine differences across regions in the number of facilities built with differences in exposure across cohorts induced by the timing of the program. We find a sizeable impact of the program on pre-primary school participation among children aged between 3 and 5.

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