care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals …. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. … receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …