Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202001 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7775
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children’s development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine-month curriculum intervention has effects on child development at post-intervention and the effects persist one year following the end of the treatment. The effects are entirely driven by the preschool centers identified as low-quality at baseline, suggesting that a structured curriculum can reduce inequality in early childhood learning environments.
Subjects: 
universal preschool
intervention
randomized controlled trial
field experiment
child development
JEL: 
I20
H42
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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