Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrolment and Learning Outcomes: Evaluation of a Public Program in India.
We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children's enrolment in pre-primary level and subsequent test scores. Using difference-in-differences (DID), triple difference, and synthetic DID methods, we find...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 46 - 68 |
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