Educación Preescolar y Rendimiento Escolar en las Escuelas Públicas de Montevideo

Renato Aguilar and Ruben Tansini ()
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Renato Aguilar: Departamento de Economía, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ruben Tansini: Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

No 2010, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly interested in the effect of pre-school education on the children’s academic results. We found fairly strong empirical evidence suggesting that pre-school education has significant short and long-term positive effect on these children’s results. We also found that other factors connected with schools and with households lie behind children’s short-term and long-term performance. It is also important to note that the results for boys are clearly differentiated from those for girls.

Keywords: pre-school education; school performance; Education Production Function; Probit; Tobit; Oaxaca-Blinder; Uruguay. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010-11
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