@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5209,
            	author={Hazarika, Gautam and Viren, Vejoya},
            	title={The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India},
            	year={2010},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={5209},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5209},
	abstract={This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the long-term benefits of early childhood interventions in the United States, and to make a case for the inclusion of such interventions amongst developing nations’ policy initiatives toward expanding schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among average 7-19 year olds by 31 percentage points, and that this beneficial early experience also significantly hastens students’ grade progression.},
	keywords={India;early childhood development;less developed country;schooling},
            }