RT Journal Article
T1 Enrolment in the first stage of early childhood education and students’ academic performance: a cross-country analysis.
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Educación - Modelos matemáticos
K1 Enseñanza preescolar
K1 Rendimiento académico
K1 Lectura
AB Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their children are around 6. We intend to analyse the influence of students’ enrolment in the first stage of early childhood education on their fourth-grade reading scores. This analysis has been performed using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 and 2016 for 39 countries and an instrumental variable approach to go beyond simple correlation. We find that attending the first stage of early childhood education has a positive influence on students’ reading scores in 18 countries, whereas it presents a null influence in 16 countries.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2024
FD 2024-05-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39375
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39375
LA eng
NO López-Agudo, L. A., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2024). “Enrolment in the first stage of early childhood education and students’ academic performance: a cross-country analysis”. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 35(4), 365-386.
NO School Effectiveness and School Improvement
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026