Who is Attending and Does Attendance Influence Early School Performance?
Early childhood education has long been identified as a key driver in child development throughout schooling years and beyond. However, until now, there has been little data to test the extent to which this holds in Australia and, more importantly, whether the benefits of preschool are consistent across the population. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC) to investigate the importance of preschool in child schooling outcomes, as measured by literacy and numeracy in Year 1. The analysis involves a two stage estimation process. The first stage looks at who attends preschool, including individual, family, school and neighbourhood level circumstances on the probability of attending preschool amongst the 4-5 year old age cohort in the LSAC. The second stage considers whether preschool attendance is associated with better performance in literacy and numeracy in Year 1 after controlling for a range of other characteristics of the child. By using such a methodology invo
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