This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results from a regression-discontinuity design reveal that larger federal transfers lead to a significant expansion of local public preschool services, but show no evidence...
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2016/02/22
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7573
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2016/02/22
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Preschool education in Brazil : does public supply crowd out private enrollment ?
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