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The impact of daycare attendance on math test scores for a cohort of 4th graders in Brazil

Rodrigues, Clarissa Guimarães; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier; Santos, Daniel D.

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We estimate the impact of having attended center-based daycare institutions during early childhood on Math test scores at the 4th grade of elementary school. Because enrollment in daycare centers may depend on unobservable character-istics of the family and the child, we build and estimate a structural model of endogeneous choice of school to deal with the selectivity problem. We nd that attendance to daycare institutions is associated with a gain of approximately 0,04 standard deviation in Math test scores. This result is important to the extent our OLS results as well as most of the studies for Brazil nd no e¤ect associated to daycare attendance, suggesting selectivity may play a role on this finding.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2012
Instituição
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/10004

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