receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … provides an empirical application in which we use variation in families' travel distance to identify the causal effect of child …

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work … find substantial variation in subsidy effects across the BMI distribution. In particular, child care subsidies have no … at the top of the distribution. Our results point to the use of non-parental child care, particularly centerbased …

criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of child protection investigators as an instrument to identify … child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across … individuals who were investigated for abuse or neglect as children. Families are effectively randomized to child protection …

outcomes. Analyzing the introduction of universal highly-subsidized child care in Quebec, we first demonstrate that there are … no statistically significant gender differences in the average effect of access to universal child care on child outcomes … the introduction of the policy. The analysis is suggestive that the availability of subsidized child care changed home …

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One … parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on …