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Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program

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dc.contributor.authorBerkes, Jan
dc.contributor.authorBouguen, Adrien
dc.contributor.authorFilmer, Deon
dc.contributor.authorFukao, Tsuyoshi
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-13T20:50:53Z
dc.date.available2019-12-13T20:50:53Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper experimentally examines the impacts of a large-scale government program that increased the supply and quality of community preschools in rural Cambodia. The construction of new preschool facilities was paired with two demand-side interventions designed to stimulate additional enrollment into preschools. The newly constructed preschools caused an increase in enrollment rates but the demand-side interventions did not. One year after the program started, the paper finds small and significant impacts on cognitive (0.04 standard deviations) and socio-emotional development (0.09 standard deviations). The analysis shows that the cognitive impacts are driven by children from the wealthiest quartile, while the program had limited impacts on children from the poorest families. The effects on cognitive development increased after two years for the wealthiest (the cognitive gap widened) while the effects on socio-emotional development faded out across the board. Using detailed classroom surveys and in-class observations, the paper shows that the program had large impacts on the quality of preschool infrastructure and materials but only limited impacts the quality of educational processes -- the results therefore suggest that further improvement of those processes might be needed to foster the development of disadvantaged children.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/282471575302067442/Improving-Preschool-Provision-and-Encouraging-Demand-Heterogeneous-Impacts-of-a-Large-Scale-Program
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9070
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33013
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9070
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectPRESCHOOL FACILITIES
dc.subjectSCHOOL ENROLLMENT
dc.subjectEDUCATION
dc.titleImproving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demanden
dc.title.subtitleHeterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Programen
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okr.crossref.titleImproving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand: Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program
okr.date.disclosure2019-12-02
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/282471575302067442/Improving-Preschool-Provision-and-Encouraging-Demand-Heterogeneous-Impacts-of-a-Large-Scale-Program
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9070
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9070
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okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryCambodia
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okr.topicEducation::Early Childhood Development
okr.topicEducation::Educational Institutions & Facilities
okr.topicEducation::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics and the Education Global Practice
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