Tác động của giáo dục mầm non đến phát triển nhận thức: Nghiên cứu từ Việt Nam

Trường đại học

University of Economics

Chuyên ngành

Development Economics

Người đăng

Ẩn danh

Thể loại

thesis

2015

70
0
0

Phí lưu trữ

30 Point

Mục lục chi tiết

ABSTRACT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Research objectives

1.3. Research question

1.4. Research scope and data

1.5. The structure of the thesis

2. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Early Childhood Education

2.2. Cognitive Development

2.3. The importance of investing in early childhood care and education

2.4. Empirical study review

2.4.1. The impact of pre-school attendance on child cognition

2.4.2. The impact of other factors on child cognition

2.4.2.1. The impact of socioeconomic status (SES)
2.4.2.2. The impact of number of siblings
2.4.2.3. The impact of child health and nutritional status

2.4.3. Previous research of early childhood education attendance in Vietnam

3. CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1. An overview of pre-school enrolment in Viet Nam

3.2. Empirical strategy and econometric modeling

3.3. Description of key variables

4. CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1. Results of OLS regressions

4.1.1. The impact of preschool attendance on the CDA scores of the child

4.1.2. The impact of preschool attendance on the PPVT scores of the child

4.2. Results of IV estimation with binary endogenous variable

5. CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION

5.1. Limitations and recommendations for future research

Appendix 1: The construction of the wealth index

Appendix 2: Results of t-test on CDA score by preschool (mean-comparison tests), coded 1 for preschool attendees, 0 for non-preschool attendees

Appendix 3: Comparison of densities of level and natural logarithm of the CDA and PPVT scores

Appendix 4: Results of t test on PPVT score by ethnicity (mean-comparison tests), coded 1 for ethnic children, 0 for kinh or chinese children

Appendix 5: Results of t-test on CDA score by region (mean-comparison tests)

Appendix 6: Total bad events between CDA and PPVT model

Appendix 7: Results of OLS regression on CDA scores

Appendix 8: Results of OLS regression on PPVT score

Appendix 9: Results of 2SLS regression with binary endogenous variable (CDA score)

Appendix 10: Results of 2SLS regression with binary endogenous variable (PPVT score)

Appendix 11: Test for weak instruments

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