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Can early childhood policies affect the technology of skill production? A structural assessment of Chile Crece Contigo

  • Series
    Health Economics Seminars
  • Speaker
    Marina Aguiar Palma (FGV-Rio)
  • Field
    Empirical Microeconomics
  • Location
    Polak 3-22
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    October 26, 2021
    12:00 - 13:00

The article assesses the impact of Chile’s early childhood policy, Chile Crece Contigo (ChCC), using data from Chile’s Longitudinal Early Childhood Survey (ELPI). We estimate a CES production function of skills of children exposed to ChCC since gestation and compare it to those exposed to the policy only at later developmental stages. The results show that ChCC is associated with higher socio-emotional abilities and cognition as well as higher levels of parental investments. Differences in production function parameters between pre-ChCC and post-ChCC cohorts, including the productivity of parental investments, explain between 66% to 95% of total effects. In addition, we find evidence that ChCC effects were concentrated on vulnerable families.