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Does Early Education Influence Key Stage 1 Attainment? Evidence for England from the Millennium Cohort Study

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  • Anitha George
  • Lucy Stokes
  • David Wilkinson

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There is a body of evidence that shows that early education improves cognitive and social development for children while they are still attending, but the longer-term impacts depend on the quality of early education. Much of this evidence in England relates to a period when attendance rates at early education were around 60 per cent. Since then, early education has expanded through the guarantee of free provision for three- and four-year-olds, such that attendance at early education is now almost universal. This paper uses data from the Millennium Cohort Study to consider whether, in an era of near universal provision, early education is still associated with detectable improvements in outcomes for children. The analysis focuses on attainment in Key Stage 1 assessments when children were aged seven and finds that the overall impact of early education on Key Stage 1 attainment is modest, but that the impact is generally greater for those children who experienced poverty when they entered early education.

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  • Anitha George & Lucy Stokes & David Wilkinson, 2012. "Does Early Education Influence Key Stage 1 Attainment? Evidence for England from the Millennium Cohort Study," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 222(1), pages 67-80, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:222:y:2012:i:1:p:r67-r80
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    1. Tammy Campbell & Ludovica Gambaro & Kitty Stewart, 2019. "Inequalities in the experience of early education in England: Access, peer groups and transitions," CASE Papers /214, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
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    3. Stewart, Kitty, 2013. "Labour's record on the under fives: policy, spending and outcomes 1997 - 2010," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 58084, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Campbell, Tammy & Gambaro, Ludovica & Stewart, Kitty, 2019. "Inequalities in the experience of early education in England: access, peer groups and transitions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 103460, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Kitty Stewart, 2013. "Labour's Record on the Under Fives: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997 - 2010," CASE - Social Policy in a Cold Climate Working Paper 04, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    6. Jaimee Stuart & Gail Pacheco & Mary Hedges & Susan Morton, 2013. "Monkey see, monkey do? How do shifts in parental socio-economic class influence children's outcomes?," Working Papers 2013-07, Auckland University of Technology, Department of Economics.
    7. Kitty Stewart, 2013. "Labour’s Record on the Under Fives: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010," CASE Papers case176, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    8. Stewart, Kitty, 2013. "Labour's record on the under fives: policy, spending and outcomes 1997 - 2010," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 51201, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    Keywords

    Early Education; child attainment; Key Stage 1; Millennium Cohort Study;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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