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Seminario IECON: "Preschool Education and Child Development and Health: Evidence from State Pre-K Programs"Seminario IECON
Presenta Mariana Zerpa (University of Leuven, IECON- UdelaR) "Preschool Education and Child Development and Health: Evidence from State Pre-K Programs" Resumen This paper analyzes the effects of attending state preschool programs on grade repetition, child development and health up to eight years after preschool age. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, the Current Population Survey, state legislature and other sources, I leverage variation in the timing of implementation of pre-K programs across states to look at the effects of a large and representative group of state preschool programs. The intent-to-treat estimates indicate that the developmental outcomes of children who live in states that had pre-K programs when they were 4 years old are improved at least up to four years after preschool age, and grade repetition is reduced. I find no evidence of this effect being reversed in the following four years, implying sustained reductions in grade retention at least until age 12. I also find suggestive evidence of increased health problems in the short run. I use two alternative ways of approximating treatment-on-the-treated effects, and find that my results imply large effects. Martes 21/8/2018 12 hs, Salón Multifuncional Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración |