Evaluation and determinants of pre-school effectiveness in Chile

Víctor Giménez, Claudio Thieme (), Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
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Claudio Thieme: Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile

No 2020/02, Working Papers from Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain)

Abstract: Early intervention in quality education is a way to equalize opportunities, a premise assumed by several countries that has increased interest in preschool education, which is now a relevant area of public policy. However, the performance of preschool education centers has received relatively scarce research attention. Consistent with the above, there are no studies quantifying the level of effectiveness with which these centers operate. This study examines the problem and aims to evaluate the performance of preschool education centers that serve children from lower socioeconomic families in Chile. For this, a centralized DEA Assurance Region model is proposed, which, in addition to avoiding the main criticisms received by the traditional Benefit of Doubt models, shows important differences in the results of efficacy and weights of the composite indicators. In addition, a second stage analysis is carried out using decision trees to identify variables that determine the composition of homogeneous preschool groups according to their effectiveness. The target population evaluated is kindergartens serving families with low socioeconomic status in urban and rural areas in Chile, and results reveal the importance of three structural factors: family income, kindergarten size, and location.

Keywords: assurance region; centralized data envelopment analysis; composite indicators; effectiveness; preschool (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 H52 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2020
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