PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rege, Mari
AU  - Størksen, Ingunn
AU  - Solli, Ingeborg F.
AU  - Kalil, Ariel
AU  - McClelland, Megan M.
AU  - ten Braak, Dieuwer
AU  - Lenes, Ragnhild
AU  - Lunde, Svanaug
AU  - Breive, Svanhild
AU  - Carlsen, Martin
AU  - Erfjord, Ingvald
AU  - Hundeland, Per Sigurd
TI  - The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0220-10749R3
DP  - 2024 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 576--603
VI  - 59
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/2/576.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/2/576.full
AB  - This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year-olds into the universal preschool context of Norway, where the business as usual is an unstructured curriculum. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children’s development in mathematics, language, and executive functioning. The nine-month intervention has effects on child development at post-intervention, and the effects persist one year following the end of the treatment. The effects are mainly driven by the preschools identified as low quality at baseline, indicating that a structured curriculum can reduce inequality in early childhood learning environments.