Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"

The focus in developing countries has shifted from increasing access to early childhood education to improving its quality. However, large scale studies of childcare quality improvement are scarce. In this paper we study the immediate and medium-term effects of a large-scale expansion of integrated...

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Bernal, Raquel
Ramírez, Sara María
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2018
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Universidad de los Andes
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Early childhood development
Early education
Poverty
Impact evaluation
J13, I10, I20, H43
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
title Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
spellingShingle Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
Early childhood development
Early education
Poverty
Impact evaluation
J13, I10, I20, H43
title_short Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
title_full Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
title_fullStr Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
title_full_unstemmed Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
title_sort Improving childcare quality at scale: the effects of "From Zero to Forever"
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Bernal, Raquel
Ramírez, Sara María
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Bernal, Raquel
Ramírez, Sara María
dc.subject.keyword.none.fl_str_mv Early childhood development
Early education
Poverty
Impact evaluation
topic Early childhood development
Early education
Poverty
Impact evaluation
J13, I10, I20, H43
dc.subject.jel.none.fl_str_mv J13, I10, I20, H43
description The focus in developing countries has shifted from increasing access to early childhood education to improving its quality. However, large scale studies of childcare quality improvement are scarce. In this paper we study the immediate and medium-term effects of a large-scale expansion of integrated early education services on child development, by analyzing the expansion of the Colombian national early childhood strategy known as "From Zero and Forever" between 2011 and 2013. The results indicate that the increased access to enhanced early education had a large immediate effect on language that still persists five years into the intervention.
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