We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment …

this study we examine the relationship between Kindergarten attendance and the 7th grade school placement of children in … results indicate that there is no significant correlation between Kindergarten attendance of children of German citizens and … significantly associated with Kindergarten attendance prior to school enrollment. Additionally, the analysis shows that controlling …

We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide … expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the impact of preschool attendance on high …

kindergarten at age 5-6. Our identifying variation comes from a reform that lowered school starting-age from 7 to 6 in Norway in …

We examine the impact of offering full-day as a replacement for half-day kindergarten on mothers' labour supply using … the rollout of full-day kindergarten in Ontario, Canada. We find no impact on the extensive margin but do find one on the … intensive margin. In particular, we find that access to full-day kindergarten increases weekly hours worked and decreases …

Full-day kindergarten programs are expanding across North America, driven by a policy focus on early childhood … full-day kindergarten in Ontario's French – but not English – schools. We find no robust evidence of labour supply effects …

Child care and early education subsidies are an important part of government efforts to increase economic independence … increasing economic independence and improving child outcomes. All child care and early education subsidies affect both work …

education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …