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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP12031 |
DP12031 Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education | |
Daniela Del Boca; Pietro Biroli; James Heckman; Sidharth Moktan; Chiara Pronzato | |
发表日期 | 2017-05-08 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0-3) and preschool (ages 3-6) programs. The control group either did not receive formal childcare or were exposed to programs offered by the state or religious systems. We exploit the city-cohort structure of the data to estimate treatment effects using three strategies: difference-in-differences,matching, and matched-difference-in-differences. Most positive and significant effects are generated from comparisons of the treated with individuals who did not receive formal childcare. Relative to not receiving formal care, the Reggio Approach significantly boosts outcomes related to employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals exposed to alternative forms of childcare do not yield strong patterns of positive and significant effects. This suggests that differences between the Reggio Approach and other alternatives are not sufficiently large to result in significant differences in outcomes. This interpretation is supported by our survey, which documents increasing similarities in the administrative and pedagogical practices of childcare systems in the three cities over time. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Reggio approach Early childhood education Childcare Evaluation Italian education |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12031 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540843 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniela Del Boca,Pietro Biroli,James Heckman,et al. DP12031 Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education. 2017. |
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