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 …

that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care. …

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 … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

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 …

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 …

- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

(1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of children aged 0-3 are queuing for child care slots, whereas only 10 … percent of children aged 4-6 years are queuing. For children in the younger age group who have working mothers, about 255 …