Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192613 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 631
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Two districts of Oslo started to offer five-year-old children free preschool four hours a day. We analyze the effect of this intervention on the school performance of the children from immigrant families 10 years later (age 16). Our difference-in-difference approach takes advantage of the variation caused by the intervention being implemented in two districts in Oslo, leaving other similar districts unaffected. The grade point average of girls increases substantially more in the intervention districts than in the comparison districts; resulting in an effect estimate of more than a quarter of a standard deviation. There is no significant change in boys' performance, and no support for disadvantageous effects on non-cognitive outcomes.
Subjects: 
preschool
immigrants
early intervention
school performance
JEL: 
J13
J15
H52
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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