The effect of early childhood developmental program attendance on future school enrollment in rural North India |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Finance and Economics, School of Business, The University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520, United States;2. Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, College of Education, The University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520, United States;1. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK;2. School of Education, University of Brighton, UK;3. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India;4. Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge, UK;1. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, United States;2. Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute – Delhi, India;1. Arizona State University, United States;2. Oregon State University, United States;3. Oregon State University—Cascades, United States;1. University of Delaware, United States;2. Cornell University, United States;3. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States;4. MIT, United States;5. Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, United States;1. USDA Economic Research Service, Washington, DC 20224, USA;2. Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba 3935, South Africa;3. University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;4. University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK;5. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7–18 years olds’ school enrollment in rural North India. Analyses by age group of data from the World Bank's 1997–98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar reveal that 7–10 year olds, 11–14 year olds, and even 15–18 year olds are more likely to be enrolled in school as a result of having attended an early childhood developmental program when they were 0–6 years old. It is also found that this favorable effect is particularly pronounced among children from households below the poverty line. |
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