Pre-school contributions to future achievements
This paper provides recent evidence about the beneÖts of attending preschool on future performance. A non-parametric matching procedure is used over two outcomes: math and verbal scores at a national mandatory test (Saber11) in Colombia. It is found that students who had the chance of attending pres...
- Autores:
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/10859
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10859
http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10859
- Palabra clave:
- Educación primaria
Preschool
Education
Colombia
Teoría de la educación
Educación preescolar::Aspectos Sociales
Desarrollo infantil
Rendimiento académico::Niños
- Rights
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
| Summary: | This paper provides recent evidence about the beneÖts of attending preschool on future performance. A non-parametric matching procedure is used over two outcomes: math and verbal scores at a national mandatory test (Saber11) in Colombia. It is found that students who had the chance of attending preschool obtain higher scores in math (6.7%) and verbal (5.4%) than those who did not. A considerable fraction of these gaps comes from the upper quintiles of studentís performance, suggesting that preschool matters when is done at high quality institutions. When we include the number of years at the preschool, the gap rises up to 12% in verbal and 17% in math. |
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