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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …

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No Child Left Behind. Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

There is a heated debate in the US and Canada, as well as in many European countries, about a move towards subsidized, universally accessible child care. At the same time, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce, limited to short-run outcomes, and the findings are mixed....

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field? Evidence from non-linear difference-in-differences

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

-scale, publicly subsidized child care in Norway affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as adults. We find that mean … earnings distribution, and sizable below the median. This is an important observation since previous empirical studies of …

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What linear estimators miss: Re-examining the effects of family income on child outcomes

Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010

This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children's...

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No child left behind: universal child care and children's long-run outcomes

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...

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