PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Adrien Bouguen
AU  - Deon Filmer
AU  - Karen Macours
AU  - Sophie Naudeau
TI  - Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.53.2.1215-7581R1
DP  - 2018 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 474--512
VI  - 53
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/53/2/474.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/53/2/474.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2018 Mar 31; 53
AB  - Interventions targeting early childhood hold promise for reducing the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Results from a randomized evaluation of a preschool construction program in Cambodia suggest caution. Overall impacts on early childhood outcomes are small and insignificant. Impacts on cognition are negative for the cohort with highest program exposure, with the largest negative effects among children of poorer and less educated parents. The results are explained by substitution from primary to preschool and differences in demand responses to preschools between more and less educated parents. Context, program specifics, and behavioral responses can hence lead to perverse effects of well-intentioned interventions.