preschool

Investments in early education can generate strong long-run human-capital and demographic gains in middle-income countries. New evidence shows that Argentina’s large-scale expansion of pre-primary education in the 1990s substantially increased comple...

A cost-effective at-scale preschool construction programme in Mozambique improved development outcomes of primary-school age children living in extreme deprivation.

Subsidised access to full-day preschools in Uganda had long-term positive effects on children’s anthropometrics but not their learning outcomes. Cash transfers of a similar value as the preschool subsidy had a similar impact.