Does the Quality of Pre-primary Education Pay Off in Secondary School? An International Comparison Using PISA 2003

Gabriela Schütz

No Ifo Working Paper No. 68, Ifo Working Paper Series from Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: Attendance of pre-primary institutions is positively associated with PISA test scores inmost countries. Several indicators of structural quality of pre-primary education areidentified that can account for the variation in the estimated coefficients on pre-primaryattendance across countries, based on a cross-country student-level specification withcountry fixed effects and interactions between individual pre-primary attendance andcountry-level quality indicators. The association of pre-primary attendance with testscores at age 15 is larger in countries with higher per-pupil spending in pre-primaryeducation, larger shares of children attending privately managed pre-primaryinstitutions, and higher relative pay and higher levels of training of pre-primaryteachers.

Keywords: Pre-primary; ISCED 0; kindergarten; educational performance; educationalquality; PISA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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