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 …

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

year before kindergarten lowers reading and math test scores and increases a variety of behavior problems at kindergarten … entry. Some of these negative effects persist to the end of kindergarten. A tentative explanation for the poorer outcomes is …