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","instructions":"See README in the reproducibility package.","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DIME) Analytics team, World Bank."}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for From Access to Achievement: The Primary-School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities","idno":"RR_MOZ_2024_138"},"acknowledgment_statement":"We thank L\u00facia Nhampossa for her extremely valuable contributions to this project. This paper has benefited greatly from the helpful feedback of Orazio Attanasio, Emanuela Galasso, Carolina Lopez, Costas Meghir, Norbert Schady, Manisha Shah, and seminar participants at MWIEDC UChicago 2024. This work was supported by the World Bank SIEF Trust Fund. DICIPE was financed by a World Bank and Global Partnership for Education grant through the Education Sector Support Fund (FASE). Ravindran is funded by a startup grant at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Juan Fernando Duque provided superb research assistance. The authors have no conflicts of interest to report. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this report are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, its Executive Directors, or the governments they represent.","production_date":"2024-06","abstract":"Using a randomized control trial, this paper studies an at-scale preschool construction program which serves disadvantaged poor communities in rural Mozambique. Complementing the construction of preschools, the program hired local instructors and provided parenting education sessions. We find that the program showed high take up rates, significantly increasing access to preschool education. Relative to a small base of 2% of children in control communities enrolled in preschool, the intervention raised preschool enrollment rates in treated communities by 73 percentage points. The program also had significant positive effects on enrollment in and progression through primary school, with a 6 percentage points increase in enrollment in first grade at age 6, and a 0.16 standard deviation impact on an index of cognitive and social-emotional skills. Using machine learning tools, we estimate substantial heterogeneity by child development skills at baseline. 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