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Early childhood education attendance and proficiency at fifteen
Whether time in early childhood programmes still shows in performance ten years later.
Linked reported attendance in early childhood education and care to PISA proficiency at age fifteen across countries. The association survives, but it is heavily confounded by family background, and the paper is as much about that confounding as about the effect.
Part of IELS: Early Learning International comparative policy research
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- 2020Attendance in early childhood education and care programmes and academic proficiencies at age 15OECD Education Working PapersWorking paper