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 …

earnings distribution of exposed children as adults, and negative in the uppermost part. We complement this analysis with local … linear regressions of the child care effects by family income. We find that most of the gains in earnings associated with the … in earnings. In line with the differential effects by family income, we estimate that the universal child care program …