-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent …

-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law’s introduction to equivalent …

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the … remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged … present study is one of the first representative studies to look at preschool children three and older who do not attend a day …

. The evidence suggests that the behavioral effects are mostly driven by children from low socio-economic households. Day …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …