Arbeitspapier
Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment on ability measures and show that attending extra science courses with preschool classes leads to significantly higher school readiness. Attending classes at JU increases school readiness by approximately 2.18% which corresponds to 1/5 of a standard deviation of the ability score. The result is plausible and passes various robustness checks.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5778
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Analysis of Education
Education: Government Policy
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Thema
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early childhood education
extracurricular activities
early interventions
school readiness
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Makles, Anna
Schneider, Kerstin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Makles, Anna
- Schneider, Kerstin
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2016