1. A universalização da pré-escola no Brasil: uma análise de determinantes históricos.
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SILVA, TALITA, BARCELLOS, THAIS, HIRATA, GUILHERME, and ARAUJO E OLIVEIRA, JOÃO BATISTA
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LABOR supply , *PUBLIC investments , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors , *PRESCHOOLS , *ATTENDANCE - Abstract
The school attendance of 4-5 years-old children raised from 3.7% to 78.9% between 1970 and 2018 in Brazil. This paper analyses the preschool expansion process in Brazil in the last 50 years, documenting the preschool attendance and discussing how sociodemographic and institutional factors usually associated with the expansion are related to the process. The paper shows that female labor force participation, public investments, and demographic factors were to some extent important but not crucial to the expansion of pre-school attendance in Brazil. Furthermore, the observed expansion seems to be a result of uncoordinated and unplanned policies implemented in the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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