Efeitos do Programa Nacional de Apoio ao Transporte Escolar sobre os estabelecimentos rurais de educação infantil

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the effects of the National School Transportation Program (Pnate) on the number of early childhood education establishments in Brazil and the heterogeneous effects for the Northeast region. To achieve the proposed objective, we used data from various sources and as an empirical strategy the staggered difference-in-differences model proposed by Callaway and Sant’Anna (2021), which considers: multiple periods; variation in treatment time, and the validity of the assumption of parallel trends. The results indicate that the Brazilian municipalities that received the program showed a reduction in the number of early childhood education establishments. This result is even greater for municipalities in the Northeast, where the effect observed for Brazil was twice as large.