Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low …, accomplishing this goal requires a thorough understanding of the factors that influence parents' child care decisions. This paper … that while parents are extremely sensitive to the cost of child care, they also have strong preferences for quality …

care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …