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Early Childhood Research QuarterlyVolume 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 457-470

Long-run benefits from universal high-quality preschooling(Article)

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  • aGraduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, POB 616, Maastricht, NL-6200 MD, Netherlands
  • bDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • cKORA, Denmark
  • dDepartment of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Denmark

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of preschool quality for children's school performance at the end of primary school. We construct five structural quality indicators based on unique Danish administrative register data. 30,444 children finishing primary school's 9th grade in 2008 and who attended a formal preschool institution in 1998 are used in the analyses. OLS analyses show that three out of five quality indicators, a higher staff-per-child ratio, a higher share of male staff, and a higher share of staff with formal preschool teacher training are associated with significant improvements in children's test results in Danish. Boys benefit more from preschool quality than girls. Ethnic minority children benefit from higher staff stability. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.

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Care qualityChild developmentDaycareEarly childhood educationPreschool

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DSF-09-070295

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    We thank the Center for Strategic Research in Education and Competence Building ( DSF-09-070295 ) for financial support. We appreciate comments on previous drafts of the paper by Virginia Maestri, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Daniele Checchi, Marianne Simonsen, Kevin Milligan, and participants at the NCoE Workshop Bornholm, the ESPE Conference in Essen, the EPC Conference in Vienna, the CSER workshop in Copenhagen, the Joint ASB/IAB Workshop in Børkop, the SFI Advisory Research Board Conference and a seminar in AKF. We are grateful for the valuable comments received by the editor and three anonymous referees. All errors remain our own.

  • ISSN: 08852006
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2014.05.009
  • Document Type: Article
  • Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

  Bauchmüller, R.; Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, POB 616, Maastricht, Netherlands
© Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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