from high-quality demonstration programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed … Start has beneficial effects on disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit … disadvantaged children …

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 …

market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …

grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children …, enrolled in either center based day care or family day care at age 2. Exploiting variation across municipalities in guaranteed …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … time' devoted to children. We show that these are parental human and cultural capital and their values that are primary …

. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …