TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boca, Daniela Del
AU  - Monfardini, Chiara
AU  - See, Sarah Grace
        TI  - Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis
        PY  - 2018/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11375
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11375
        AB  - Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in education and attendance to early child care are associated with better later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to have significant effects Our results may imply that policies encouraging childcare expansion should also take into account quality issues.
        KW  - early childcare and education
KW  - school performance
KW  - test scores
        ER  -