What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

on a fullday basis on children's skill development just before entering primary school. Identification relies on a … administrative data covering almost 100'000 children, we find positive effects on immigrant children's school readiness. Yet, at the … same time immigrant children suffer in terms of their socio-emotional development, a finding we also observe among native …

-curricular activities, on children’s skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school … datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …

What happens to children’s long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children’s reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. …