Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India.
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India's Integrated Child Development Services. Adding a worker doubled net preschool instructional time and led to increases of 0.28σ and 0.46σ in math and lan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 132; no. 5; pp. 1565 - 1603 |
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University of Chicago Press
May2024
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