Kindergarten Enrollment, Early Student Achievement, and Upward Mobility to Top Schools: Evidence from Legislative Frictions in Chile
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Status: Draft coming soon
Journal: TBA
Details: [working paper][supplementary materials]
Date: March 2026
Authors: Joseph Calderon
Abstract
What happens when a policy appears to be mandatory in theory, but in practice it is not? I estimate the impact of kindergarten enrollment on student achievement and upward mobility to top schools at childhood by exploiting a legislative friction in Chile that made kindergarten appear mandatory.
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