equalizing opportunity among children, using quantile treatment effects estimates of a major child care reform in Norway. …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

influence on the private provision of primary education was limited by a national voucher system. The comparison of preschools …

care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety …

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this … paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of … characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother’s labor supply and country of origin. Among …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are … polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully …

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 …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …