The Effect of a Large Expansion of Pre-Primary School Facilities on Preschool Attendance and Maternal Employment

Sebastian Galiani and Samuel Berlinski

No 77, Working Papers from Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia

Abstract: We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school attendance and maternal labor supply. Identification relies on a differences-in-differences strategy where we combine differences across regions in the number of facilities built with differences in exposure across cohorts induced by the timing of the program. We find a sizeable impact of the program on pre-primary school participation among children aged between 3 and 5. In fact, we cannot reject the null hypothesis of a full take-up of newly constructed places. In addition, we find that the childcare subsidy induced by the program increases maternal employment and that this effect is in line with the one previously found for the US.

Keywords: school facilities; preschool attendance; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2005-08, Revised 2005-08
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Journal Article: The effect of a large expansion of pre-primary school facilities on preschool attendance and maternal employment (2007)
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