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Effects of a Large-Scale Program for the Construction of Daycare and Preschool Centers on Cognitive Skills and Female Employment
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Marcelo Castro; Breno da Cruz – Education Economics, 2024
This paper assesses the impacts of a large-scale program aimed at constructing daycare and preschool centers in Brazil named Proinfância, which funded new buildings in nearly 45% of the municipalities between 2008 and 2017. We find a significant increase in early education care in the jurisdictions that participated in the program more than a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities, Labor Force
From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities. Working Paper 33543
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Marina Bassi; Bruno Besbas; Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz; Saravana Ravindran; Ana Reynoso – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
Using a randomized control trial, this paper studies an at-scale preschool construction program that serves poor communities in rural Mozambique. We show that the program significantly increased preschool enrollment in treated communities by 73 percentage points, from a small base of 2 percent of children enrolled in preschool in control…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Preschools, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools
The Abbott School Construction Program: NJ Department of Education Proposed Facilities Regulations. Analysis of Preschool Issues
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Ponessa, Joan; Boylan, Ellen – Education Law Center, 2004
This report on preschool facilities analyzes regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to implement the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act. (EFCFA). EFCFA, which authorizes and governs New Jersey's public school construction program, was enacted in July 2000 to implement the State Supreme Court's…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Preschool Education, School Construction, Construction Programs