Blanden, J and Del Bono, E and McNally, S and Rabe, B (2016) Universal Pre-school Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision. Economic Journal, 126 (592). pp. 682-723. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12374
Blanden, J and Del Bono, E and McNally, S and Rabe, B (2016) Universal Pre-school Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision. Economic Journal, 126 (592). pp. 682-723. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12374
Blanden, J and Del Bono, E and McNally, S and Rabe, B (2016) Universal Pre-school Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision. Economic Journal, 126 (592). pp. 682-723. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12374
Abstract
© 2016 The Authors. The Economic Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Economic Society This article studies the effect of free pre-school education on child outcomes in primary school. We exploit the staggered implementation of free part-time pre-school for three year olds across Local Education Authorities in England in the early 2000s. The policy led to small improvements in attainment at age 5, with no apparent benefits by age 11. We argue that this is because the expansion of free places largely crowded out privately paid care, with small changes in total participation, and was achieved through an increase in private provision, where quality is lower on average than in the public sector.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Source info: The Economic Journal, Vol. 126, Issue 592, pp. 682-723, 2016 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | H44; I21; Childcare; child outcomes; publicly provided goods |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance L Education > L Education (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 May 2016 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 19:59 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/16778 |
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