The Growth Effects of Alternative Early Childhood Development Investment Policies in the Turkish Economy

Serap Sagir, Çağaçan Değer () and Durdane Sirin Saracoglu ()
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Serap Sagir: Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics, Ankara, Türkiye
Çağaçan Değer: Ege University, Department of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye
Durdane Sirin Saracoglu: Middle East Technical University, Department of Economics, Ankara, Türkiye
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No 2304, ERC Working Papers from ERC - Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the relationship between mother’s education level and the development of young children in Turkey using representative microdata from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS). The data include detailed information about the developmental status of young children of 36-to-59 months old. We find that only when the mother has at least a high school level education, there is a positive impact on the child’s developmental status as summarized the Early Childhood Development (ECD) index, which is an index constructed based on the child’s four developmental domains. We also show that the household’s wealth is also positively associated with the child’s developmental status, particularly in the socio-emotional and the learning readiness domains.

Keywords: early childhood development; human capital accumulation; overlapping generations modeling; general equilibrium; economic growth; policy simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 J24 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2023-11, Revised 2023-11
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