The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Gautam Hazarika () and Vejoya Viren ()
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Vejoya Viren: University of Texas at Brownsville

No 5209, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the long-term benefits of early childhood interventions in the United States, and to make a case for the inclusion of such interventions amongst developing nations’ policy initiatives toward expanding schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among average 7-19 year olds by 31 percentage points, and that this beneficial early experience also significantly hastens students’ grade progression.

Keywords: India; early childhood development; less developed country; schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 O12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2010-09
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Published - published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 146-161

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