Preschool expansion in Brazil: an analysis of historical determinants

Talita Silva (), Thais Barcellos (), Guilherme Hirata () and João Batista Araujo e Oliveira ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2024, vol. 44, issue 2, 357-376

Abstract: The school attendance of 4-5 years-old children raised from 3.7% to 78.9% between1970 and 2018 in Brazil. This paper analyses the preschool expansion process in Brazilin the last 50 years, documenting the preschool attendance and discussing how sociodemographicand institutional factors usually associated with the expansion are related to theprocess. The paper shows that female labor force participation, public investments, and demographicfactors were to some extent important but not crucial to the expansion of pre-school attendance in Brazil. Furthermore, the observed expansion seems to be a result of uncoordinatedand unplanned policies implemented in the period. JEL Classification: H52, I21; N36.

Keywords: Universal preschool; public policies; determinants of preschool expansion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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