Coordinator: Emmanuele Pavolini
Funding institution: Fondazione CARIPLO
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Funding amount: €200.000
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services are increasingly recognized as key to human capital formation, economic growth, and equality. However, in Italy, there is a lack of large-scale empirical research evaluating ECEC educational outcomes and their impact on social inequalities. This project aims at bridging this gap by addressing three main questions: what is the role of nursery attendance in development of cognitive and non-cognitive competences and inequality reduction?; what is the extent of educational inequalities driven by gender, social class, and migratory background in pre-primary school?; what is the influence of different kindergarten-specific organizational and pedagogical models on these inequalities?