Sandner, Malte; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2020 - This version: February 2020
We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a … childcare coverage at the county-level. Using high-quality administrative data covering all reported child maltreatment cases in … percentage point. Because child maltreatment leads to enormous societal costs, we provide evidence that the provision of …